NYT: Why Is Trump Gaining With Black and Hispanic Voters?

The headline says it all, and it’s one of those questions where “If you have to ask the question, you won’t understand the answers.” But that doesn’t stop The Times! They come up with five possible explanations, and to nobody’s surprise, they get it wrong. Let’s take a look!

In 2016, Donald J. Trump became the Republican nominee and ultimately won the presidency after calling many Mexican immigrants rapists and falsely claiming that Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

Eight years later, the polls suggest that he might well return to the White House by faring better among Black and Hispanic voters combined than any Republican presidential nominee since the enactment of the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

How is this possible? It’s a question I get often, and the latest New York Times/Siena College polls of Black and Hispanic voters nationwide represent our best effort at answering it.

They waste no time getting to the wrong conclusions:

1. They don’t mind the dog whistles

To liberals, Mr. Trump’s views on race, crime and immigration are little more than racist dog whistles

As I’ve pointed out, when Lefties use the phrase “dog whistle”. that’s just Leftspeak for “Just because I can’t find any evidence to support my views, I’m not about to let that stop me from believing them!” I’ve also found that it doesn’t go over well when you point out to them  that these supposed dog whistles that are only heard by racists only seem to get noticed by Leftists.

2. They’re not offended; they might even be entertained

Of course, Mr. Trump hasn’t just used dog whistles in his campaigns. Sometimes, he’s used a bullhorn.

During his time in national politics, he has offended millions of Black and Hispanic voters, including by recently saying that Haitian refugees eat cats and dogs and that undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”

But a sizable minority of Black and Hispanic voters aren’t necessarily so offended.

Yes, the vast majority of nonwhite Americans who don’t consume local wildlife and don’t want kids in their communities dying of Fentanyl overdoses aren’t offended. For that matter, they might find it kind of cool when a presidential candidate works the drive through at McDonald’s for a few hours.

3. It’s the economy, stupid

It’s obvious, and yet it still doesn’t get enough attention.

Many people assume that Democrats win Black and Hispanic voters simply because of the party’s commitment to advancing racial equality, but the role of economic self-interest should not be underestimated. Democrats started winning Black and Hispanic voters in the 1930s, not in the 1960s, because Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal helped redefine the Democrats as the party of the working class, not just the party of the former Confederacy.

Just 20 percent of Hispanic voters and 26 percent of Black voters say the current economic conditions are good or excellent. More than half of both groups say they have “often” cut back on groceries over the last year because of the cost.

To author Nate Cohn’s credit, he did acknowledge the Democrats as the party of the Confederacy, even if he stopped short of acknowledging them as the party of slavery. And now we’ve reached the tipping point where it’s become impossible to ignore the consequences of The New Deal and Great Society. Looks like LBJ’s prediction was only off by a few decades.

4. The end of hope and change

Yeah, the empty, shallow promises of eight years of Barry O have come to roost. After Obama decided that scolding black men into voting for Coupmala, Stephen A Smith, one of ESPN’s more popular race baiters, lit into Obama. While Smith gets it wrong that government money should be handed out to black Americans, he gets right that if you’re struggling to make ends meet or have to cut back on things, it’s incredibly insulting to see your tax dollars being used to house and feed people who earned it simply for coming to America illegally.

5. For a new generation, Trump is ‘normal’

These young men came of age long after the civil rights movement that cemented nearly unanimous Democratic support among Black voters 60 years ago. The youngest were toddlers during the Obama ’08 campaign. They may not have a vivid memory of Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign. To them, Mr. Trump may be “normal” — a fixture of their lives to this point, naturally making it harder to depict him as a norm-defying “threat to democracy.”

While these events forged and cemented Democratic loyalties among their elders, today’s young Black and Hispanic voters have come of age in a different era. There was the political, economic and cultural upheaval of the Trump era and the pandemic, including lockdowns and vaccine mandates; the Black Lives Matter movement; and the backlash against “woke” that followed. They experienced rising cost of goods and housing just as they entered their first years of independent living.

I’m not sure that Normal is the word for it. Donald Trump is a once in a lifetime figure, and very much a product of his times. After decades of every Republican candidate being labeled the head of the National Socialist Workers’ Party, The Republicans finally got a leader who could effectively push back against The Radical Left, and I doubt we’ll see anyone else like him. If anything, the future of the GOP seems to be in the DeSantis/Vance model, not the Bush/Cheney/Romney/McCain “leadership” that got us here.

But by all means NYT, keep getting it wrong. You only have an election to lose.

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