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egbertowillies

(4,058 posts)
Sat May 13, 2017, 04:46 PM May 2017

Trump asked black people what they'd lose voting for him. Sessions answered (VIDEO)

Many believed Trump made a fatal mistake with black voters when he asked what did they have to lose, try Trump. The reality is that I know many black people who understood that Trump is a racist, sexist, misogynist xenophobe but tried him. After all, as they saw it, the Democratic Party gave them just enough crumbs to keep their votes but not enough policies to make substantive changes to the systemic condition in a particular sector in their demographic.

Many of us understood that Trump's words would appeal to some for that reason. But we also knew that it was fool-hearted to trust Trump. But Trump played the game well enough to win the electoral college. He did what Rand Paul began doing early in the campaign before he reverted to form. In fact, I wrote a piece then titled "Don’t laugh but Rand Paul could be our next president." Instead, it is Trump who executed just what I wrote.

https://egbertowillies.com/2017/05/13/trump-black-people-lose-voting-sessions/

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