To his credit (sort of) he immediately realized how awful that sounded (to everyone) and followed it up with “Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids. No, I really mean it. But think how we think about it. We think how we’re going to dumb it down. They can do anything anybody else can do, given a shot.”
I think it offered some startling insight into (what’s left of) the mind of Joe Biden.
I sense a conflation between the terms “minority” and “black” The asian vote has swung wildly from generation to generation. Right now the racism is making asians very Democrat but if you got rid of the racism, asians would drift right. Without the racism, I don’t know that jews vote so overwhelmingly for the anti-Israel party. Without the racism, I don’t know that hispanics vote so overwhelmingly for the pro-choice party. This is true for many minorities.
Pro-life Democrats have basically been kicked out of the party.
Pro-gun Democrats have also been kicked out of the party.
This led to more ideological purity tests, particularly on race issues.
Conservative judges are certainly preferable to liberal judges from a conservative standpoint. In fact this is among the only thing that the evangelicals seem to care about. Plenty of evangelicals are conservative but not racist.
Trump is certainly seen by some to be fighting for poor working class [whites] with his trade war and immigration policy.
If he could tone down the racism and the stupid things he says and the stupid things he does and the stupid way he behaves, more people would vote for him.
Not according to wikipedia. White AND black vote represented 1% less of the vote. The asian and hispanic vote represented 1% more of the vote.
Because white voters account for 72% of the electorate and will continue to be the majority of the electorate for at least 20 more years. If people really voted according to race, Republicans would have a lock on every election for at least a couple of generations.
He opened national parks to people with guns.
He never really paid more than lip service to gun confiscation.
He never paid more than lip service to all sorts of gun control.
He realized that gun control was a political loser.
Prince George’s County, MD is the wealthiest black county in American history, more than Fulton/Gwinnett/DeKalb, GA.
Those are American Dream black professionals; doctors, lawyers, scientists, small business owners, athletes, journalists, bloggers.
They would be black Republicans because of the taxes. But the GOP is so racially toxic, that they vote Democratic and most of PG County’s representatives are Democratic.
But if you can’t explain why conservatism is better than liberalism than it’s a pretty ignorant viewpoint. People shouldn’t treat politics like it’s sports and cheer for a team just because it’s their team.
Subtract all the stupidity out of Donald Trump and there might not be enough left to vote for.
This may not make him close to being a staunch supporter but it’s not like he’s Feinstein.
He knows an AR-15 ban is pointless. He knows that gun control is a political loser but he still has to appease the gun control folks by paying lip service.
No. It doesn’t. Everything is viewed through an intersectional woke SJW lens.
It places diversity ahead of merit and in the case of colleges and universities, this frequently means preferences for middle class and wealthy black and hispanic kids over poor kids of any other race.
So you don’t think that conservative judges are preferable from a conservative standpoint? Why would I have to establish that the conservatism is better from the conservative viewpoint?
You mean like the kneejerk opposition to all conservative nominees to the Supreme Court?
This election will be closer than you may think. Assuming that Trump is an incompetent boob is a pretty good way to lose this election.
His actions resonate with three groups of people that I can think of:
Staunch partisans that will support anything with an R next to their name.
Racists and white supremacists who have Pavlovian responses to dog whistles.
Working class whites who feel like the Democrats care about everyone except them.
He can do no wrong when it comes to the first two groups.
Between his immigration policy and trade war with China, he is viewed by working class whites as protecting them from foreign competition.
You might be able to tear away some of the last group but you have to start channeling a Bernie Sanders “worker’s party” platform.
If this is true the democrats are doing a terrible job of it, because black and Latino students are still underrepresented compared to white students.
I understand why “restorative justice” such as affirmative action is controversial, but there seems to be an attempt on this thread to draw an equivalence between affirmative action and GOP policies that legitimately deny several minority groups of equal rights, and the facts just don’t back that up. If they did, we wouldn’t continue to see numbers demonstrating that black and Latino people are still less likely to go to college, less likely to go to more competitive schools and more likely to have a tough time affording it than white people. Given that we still have all those things, the fact that affirmative action is still functioning as restorative justice is clear.
Not all of them, but a lot more than they have now. It used to be that Republicans relegated the racists to a small corner of their tent where they could express their racist views in hushed whispers and dog whistles. But they would get kicked out of the tent if anyone else caught them being overtly racist.
I don’t know about other minority groups but asians probably wouldn’t be so overwhelmingly Democratic but for the racism.