WTF Is With Alex Wagner's Show Tonight?

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12. And the fact is...

...they aren't going to speak to the true root causes of why some black people are interested in Trump, and it's for the same reason some white people are interested in Trump: bigotry. There are lots of black people who harbor prejudice against the folks coming through the Southern border, and there is a not small cohort of black men who feel like the Democratic Party "pushes" the "gay agenda" and Trump and his ilk seem like they're willing to harm LGBT+ people.

Throw those things in with the misbelief Trump was behind the stimulus checks and child tax credit payments they got during the pandemic and you have some black folks who might go beyond Trump-curious to Trump voters. This is part of why polls aren't as great as some people think they are because people routinely cloak what actually motivates them.

One thing Coleman said, and it's scary in its truthfulness, is some people who don't feel democracy has worked all that well for them aren't particularly moved by the argument that democracy is in danger.

I have said it before: Biden and the DNC needs to have young surrogates like Jasmine Crockett making the case for him in black media. She's brilliant and she's real. Her appearing on their behalf on The Breakfast Club or Club Shay Shay would have ten times the impact of a Kamala Harris doing the same. Not because Kamala isn't capable, but she's a different vibe and a different generation.