Just so.
Trump's Supporters: Theory of Evolution Apologizes Profusely
Trump lands uppercuts and left hooks to the American body politic and culture by ignorant Tweets that stoke racial tensions and non-partisanship.
Just how does a racist grifter, who tells four democratic congresswomen -- Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, Ilhan Omar, D-MN, Ayanna Pressley, D-MA, and Rashida Tlaib, D-MI, to go back to their "totally broken and crime infested places from which they came -- manage to win the support of millions of Americans and bump up Trump's poll numbers? Or why did 187 US House members vote not to condemn Trump's beliefs?
According to Pew Research, polling results for the 2016 election indicate that "Among the much larger group of white voters who had not completed college (44% of all voters), Trump won by more than two-to-one (64% to 28%)"Trump had an advantage among 50-to 64-year-old voters (51% to 45%) and those 65 and older (53% to 44%)."
And it is not just those who have not completed college or even attended college who are party of Trump's loony bin. Wealthy "smart" Republicans are part of the evolutionary mishap, as well. Republican CEO's side with Trump because he is helping them increase profit margins, shareholder dividends, and stock buybacks. What's all the fuss about a President of the United States who is both a racist and pro-business? It is, after all, just another write-off for the books.
According to a paper titled The Politics of CEO's, "We use Federal Election Commission (FEC) records to put together a comprehensive database of the political contributions made by over 3,500 individuals who served as CEOs of S&P 1500 companies during the period 2000-2017. We find that these political contributions display substantial partisan preferences in support of Republican candidates. To highlight the significance of CEO's partisan preferences for some corporate decisions, we show that public companies led by Republican CEOs tend to be less transparent to investors with respect to their political spending."
Senate and House Republicans, morally bankrupt to the core, are marching to the beat of a racist drummer.
Democrats: Remember Your Ugly History
The Democrats don't get a pass on racial issues. There's a lot for them to answer for as well.
Writing in The Hill, Burgess Owens notes that, "As a party with a history of pro-slavery, pro-secession, pro-segregation and pro-socialism, the Democratic Party has also been the party that has politically controlled urban black America for over 60 years. Predominantly black communities in many cities today are mired in poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, crime and hopelessness. The Democratic Party has never apologized for its past, nor has it attempted to atone for its present failures.
Instead, it has skillfully used the art of bait-and-switch. Millions of Americans are convinced that somehow in the 1960s there was a wholesale transition of the Democratic Party's two-centuries-old hatred of black people to the policies of the anti-slavery, anti-secession, anti-segregation and pro-God Republican Party. Only in a vacuum void of common sense, critical-thinking skills and true American history could such logic survive."
Trump Channels Republican Lee Atwater
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Lee Atwater, known for his brutal, but successful, campaigning for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, commented on flipping the Southern United States from racist Dixiecrats (Democrats) to, well, racist Republicans. Gone were the days of vulgar racist comments by Whites, and in came the days of using coded terms for racist policies.
In an interview with Atwater for a book on Southern party politics in 1981, while employed by the Reagan Administration, Atwater was asked this:
"But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the [George] Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?"
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