As our friend P.E.C. noted this morning in a comment, neo- fascist white nationalist Donald "Rump" Trump's recent ludicrous "outreach" to African American voters insults us all. Beyond his insulting stereotyping, his claim that he'd be getting 95 percent support from African American voters after his "first term" [snicker], when he's polling at about 1 percent today, is yet another example of a huckster's campaign trapped in a bizarro bubble.
"What the hell do they have to lose?" by supporting him, Rump asked the lily- white crowd in Dimondale, MI (Dimdale?).
How about this, for starters:
Trump to Blacks: "What the hell do you have to lose?" Um, the right to vote? "How the GOP Gutted Voting Rights"— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 19, 2016
https://t.co/85qEaxzh8O via
This is an African American voter base that has seen the first African American President viciously savaged and delegitimatized by Republicans (and chief Obama birther Rump) for the past 7- plus years; that, as the tweet above notes, has seen widespread Republican efforts to disenfranchise African American voters; that has seen Rump and his white nationalist supporters demonize and threaten minority racial, ethnic and religious groups, and that can see the blatant racism of Rump supporters and surrogates everywhere.
These white Rump supporters, it's been shown, are not motivated by personal "economic anxiety." Rather, if you strip away the niceties, their motivation is "cultural/ racial anxiety," whether it relates to progress on African American rights, immigration, or the rights of Hispanic Americans, LGBT Americans, Muslim Americans, etc. They won't let Rump get too far off on this "kumbaya pivot" because it's not why they're supporting him, and he knows it:
Trump rally in MI:— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 19, 2016
American values!
*white people cheer*
Safety!
*cheer*
Winning!
*cheer*
Hillary's policies hurt African-Americans!
*....*
As we noted the other day, the recent Rump "pivots" on this and his no-pology "regrets, I have a few" speech are intended for gutless, party- first Republicans in search of cover to vote for him, and for the gullible, amoral media, desperate for the "presidential Trump" that they can make into a true competitor to Hillary Clinton (and, country be damned).
