Regardless of the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump’s rise will force the Democratic Party to eventually have to address how its elected officials have neglected black Americans, its most loyal constituency.
The Democratic Party’s worse nightmare happened when Donald Trump reached out to black Americans at a campaign rally in Wisconsin. Trump’s outreach was prefaced by challenging blacks to do an honest assessment of their return on investment after 50 years of voting Democrat. The most damning words that Trump spoke were “what the hell do you have to lose” by voting Trump? The last thing Democrats want blacks to do is to ponder that very question, knowing that the answer is nothing.
In the meantime, Democrats and their cohorts in the media have become unhinged at Trump’s outreach to blacks. For weeks prior to and immediately after Trump’s initial outreach, the media were quick to erroneously report that polls had Trump getting only 1% of black support. Of course, any thinking person who studies history knows that those supposed polls could not be accurate. Every Republican president in history has gotten at least 4-6% of the black vote. How is it possible that Trump was getting only one percent? Furthermore, if the polls were indeed accurate, why were liberals so upset at Trump’s outreach? – READ MORE
