“Jim Crow thing wasn’t very good for black people”. “I would do stop-and-frisk”, the Republican said. “And I think she’ll be an outstanding president”. “We have to make our cities safe again”.
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Cruz said he was simply following through on a promise to support his party’s presidential nominee, even though the NY billionaire had nicknamed him “Lyin’ Ted”, insulted his wife and linked his father to the John F. Kennedy assassination.
“What I think you want is for this generation of kids to come away thinking, ‘Yeah, everybody can do everything.’ That if you’re a little white boy or a little white girl, little black boy, little black girl, a Latino, Asian, if you grow up and you are gay or straight, if you are disabled, that you’re empowered”, he said. It’s the latest attempt by her campaign to use Trump’s words against him and is similar to ads aimed at voters in battleground states, including veterans and people with disabilities. Alas, they are no longer here to find for us the comic value in the event.
Speaking at a rally at a union hall in Houston, Kaine said Trump has a troubling history of calling women “fat pigs” and “dogs”. It has the potential to ruin the lives of many millions of people, imperiling their safety, security, freedom and dignity. The distinction may matter little to voters, but helps Cruz to save face among his loyal supporters still unwilling to forgive Trump’s attacks on the Texas senator’s wife and father during their ugly and often intensely personal primary campaign.
So what, then, is actually driving Donald Trump’s “black outreach” campaign?
The decision to announce his intention to vote for Trump, rather than endorse him outright, was seen as a compromise – even if voters see little distinction between the two. “My hope would be the presidential election reflects more serious issues than that”. In this cynical ploy, a faux-courting of non-white voters is a way of making independent and center Right-wing white voters feel more comfortable with the extreme and retrograde conservatism and racism of the current Republican Party.
The argument for stop-and-frisks is that it cuts crime.
African Americans listened carefully to Trump’s rhetoric about Muslims and Mexicans: His horrendous poll numbers among blacks reflect a widespread understanding that nothing good can come of a Trump presidency.
Addressing the violence that has erupted at protests, the president said heroes of the Civil Rights movement have shown that way to achieve lasting change is to engage the broader American community in a thoughtful, disciplined and peaceful manner, adding that there was “a right way of doing it and a wrong way of doing it”.
Where Hillary Clinton has outlined an ambitious agenda for job creation, small business revitalization, re-entry programs, and affordable housing policies for cities, Trump’s proposals double down on the very policies that contributed to the historic tensions in places like Ferguson.
Or maybe not. Because apparently Donald Trump is running for God Emperor.
This is the America that Trump wants to birth. It is real, it is here, it is present – and if Donald Trump and his “basket of deplorables” get their way, less than 60 days from being enacted. This is not a work of speculative fiction from Philip K. Dick or an installment of Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone”.
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