Trump's Racist Appeal More Explicit Every Day
KEVIN DRUM
JUL. 13, 2016 3:45 PM
... Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, foreigners of all stripes: they're all grist for Trump's crusade to convince white voters that they're surrounded by rapists, murderers, terrorists, and assorted other predators who want to take their jobs away and impoverish them. It's his whole campaign.
This is loathsome. For years it's been clear that the Republican Party could only win by turning out an ever greater share of the white vote. But by 2012 they seemed to have done everything they possibly could: Fox News stoked the xenophobia, Republican legislatures passed voter ID laws, and outreach to white evangelicals had reached saturation levels. What more did they have on their plate? Now we know the answer: nominate a guy who doesn't play around with dog whistles anymore. Instead he comes out and flatly runs as the candidate of white America, overtly attacking every minority group he can think of. That shouldn't work. In the year 2016, it should alienate at least as many white voters as it captures. But so far it seems to be doing at least moderately well ...
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of the voting whole.
Oh yes I'm going way out on a limb assuming most of his voters are white and born here.
He is doing moderately well yes considering his overt attacks on minorities and immigrants, which should be ethically , morally , a big turn off for most but apparently not
