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Van Jones Hits Panic Button, Tells Democrats Trump Is Serious About Winning Over Black Voters
Jones said Trump’s SOTU address was a “warning shot across the bow to Democrats that he’s going after enough black votes to cause us problems.
Jones said Trump’s SOTU address was a “warning shot across the bow to Democrats that he’s going after enough black votes to cause us problems.
Van Jones Hits Panic Button, Tells Democrats Trump Is Serious About Winning Over Black Voters
7 Feb 2020 ~ By Stacey Matthews
Out of all the post-State of the Union hot takes given in the aftermath of President Trump’s barn burner address to the nation Tuesday night, perhaps the most unintentionally revealing one came from Democrat CNN political commentator Van Jones. Jones zeroed in on the part of Trump’s speech he believed should concern the Democratic party the most going forward in the 2020 election season: Trump’s aggressive play for black voters.
He reiterated the points in an op/ed piece for CNN in which he closed by warning Democrats: “If we do not [respond with anything beyond outrage and fact-checks], the strategy Trump unveiled today will lead to his victory in November.” Jones made some smart observations. But if history is a reliable indicator, his fellow Democrats won’t listen because Trump Derangement Syndrome so afflicts them that it has almost destroyed their ability to see beyond the red haze of rage that consumes them daily.
Comment:
Notwithstanding Red Van’s expressions of fear, I see no solid evidence, at least so far, that would cause me to change that forecast. The MSM will go even more all-in, were that possible, on the fundamental trump (as it were) card that Trump is a White Honky Racist Pig Mother****er, a card that will as always swamp whatever favorable economic data for Blacks does indeed exist (and criminal justice reform data and issues and all the rest).
That is, of course, a meaningful improvement on Trump’s 8 percent or so in 2016. But well short of “landslide” territory.
The more important factor for Trump will not be the percentage of the Black vote he ends up getting, but the quantity of Black voters who stay home, as many did in regard to the Hillary in 2016 in contrast to the fake (but clever and persuasive) Black Obama, particularly if the Dems nominate a White Honky candidate who is unattractive to many of them, which Buttigieg surely is, and Sanders is to some lesser extent. Even Jim Carville is trying to warn the PMS/DSA Democrat hierarchy to no avail....
Trump is actually doing something tangible for the black voters unlike the PMS/DSA Dems who only offer slavery via cheap trinkets.
