NYT: Profound increase in black voters who support Trump
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Anonymous
The best answer is probably the expansion of medicaid. Republican states that have refused to expand have really hurt black people (and poor white people too). Texas just kicked amost a million children off medicaid. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2023/11/23/more-than-810000-texas-children-booted-from-medicaid-coverage/?outputType=amp However black people, like most people, probably care more about social issues and markers. So absolutely, many black people align ideologically more with the right now: tough on crime; value of hard work; traditional gender roles; religion as central. |
Anonymous
+1000. What will be interesting to see is if the Republican party can in fact moderate its extreme wing to court more black & latino voters. |
Anonymous
Lol no. They can put on a mask of decency for about ten minutes, max. They hopped into the basket of deplorables and wallowed around in it like it was something to be proud of. They owned it because they were proud of it. |
Anonymous
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Hispanics are highly evangelical, family oriented and hate taxes since they work harder than most. Moving right at light speed |
Anonymous
You are right. And given their growing percentage of the population, that does not bode well for the US in terms of developing progressive or future-oriented policies. And by "progressive," I don't mean anything crazy. I just mean the bare minimum of what European countries have. |
Anonymous
except there really wasn’t much about the “deplorables” that was expressly anti-black. to the extent they expressed ideas about race it was mainly focused on immigration and now “anti-wokeness.” you may be suprised to know that not all black people are woke and pro-immigrant. |
Anonymous
Just because you want to wish that that were so, doesn’t make it so. “You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. […]The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.” That was the deal. They liked being racist and they were happy to have Trump give them permission to say what they’d been thinking. “F*ck your feelings,” remember? A minority, Black or Latino or Muslim or whoever, can vote for a Republican. That’s their right as an American citizen, a right that the GOP wants to take from everyone but White men, but that’s currently their right. And it is my right as a citizen to say that’s a mega stupid idea to cast a vote for a bigoted party that celebrates its bigotry and offers no solutions to problems. |
Anonymous
The first two were things that Obama put in place. Trump gets no credit for them. As for the second, pardoned "many?" Trump only pardoned 143 people, which is like 10% of the pardons given by Obama, and of those 143 pardons, there were only something like 5 blacks among them. Trump pardoned far more of his own co-conspirators than he did blacks. |
Anonymous
Speaking of "basket of deplorables" if Trump actually wanted Hillary arrested, he should have hired her. Somehow everyone around him is a criminal. 😆😆😆 |
Anonymous
Too true! Plus the man himself has 91 indictments. That’s a career criminal. |
Anonymous
When people tell you what they are, believe them. |
Anonymous
The media... so you mean MSNBC, CNN, NPR, WaPo, NYT? That media? 
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Anonymous
THIS ^^^ |
Anonymous
DP. I have no problem with this. None whatsoever. Perhaps rioters and looters would think twice, for once, before terrorizing cities and police whenever they want to throw a tantrum. And you realize, it's been used before? From your own link: "Presidents have issued a total of 40 proclamations invoking the law, some of those done multiple times for the same crisis, Nunn said. Lyndon Johnson invoked it three times — in Baltimore, Chicago and Washington — in response to the unrest in cities after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. During the Civil Rights era, Presidents Johnson, John F. Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower used the law to protect activists and students desegregating schools. Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect Black students integrating Central High School after that state’s governor activated the National Guard to keep the students out. George H.W. Bush was the last president to use the Insurrection Act, a response to riots in Los Angeles in 1992 after the acquittal of the white police officers who beat Black motorist Rodney King in an incident that was videotaped." |
Anonymous
Have you read Project 2025? If not, stop calling us LWNJ's. I mean, we were being called hysterical over the prospects of losing the right to manage our bodies. Look how that turned out. |