Trump’s War on Black America Isn’t an Accident—It’s a Strategy
But even if Trump’s goals are not necessarily motivated by fanaticism, racism is still at stake. Trump and his allies accused Cook and the New York Prosecutor General James of mortgage fraud. He threw Baltimore, Chicago and Washington, DC, as a crime and needing troops of the National Guard. His administration constantly declares that the DEI programs decrease hard work and merit.
It is not an accident. It is a strategy. There are many evidence of research that many basic Americans believe (or can be ready to believe) that blacks are lazy, unskilled for their work, contrary to ethics and dangerous. Thus, even if Trump or his collaborators do not have a single ounce of real sectarianism towards blacks, they understand that it is politically intelligent for them to speak first to black mayors, cities and people appointed political, establishing precedents for subsequent attacks against people and non -black areas. White conservative voters in particular, but even some moderate and people of color are more likely to agree with Trump’s arguments if they invoke ideas of black inferiority and crime. Trump and his team know that the Americans have these biases (sometimes unconsciously) against African Americans and exploit them for political purposes.
If Trump’s racism is a tactic to advance authoritarianism and conservatism more than an objective, liberals and democrats should reconsider some of their approaches to challenge the president. The trend in the past decade has been that the Liberals declare that Trump has said or did something racist without really attacking his fundamental actions or defending his goals. When Trump said in his first mandate that Ayanna Pressley representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the other members of “The Squad” should “return” in the countries where they came, Democratic officials were completely ready to say that it was racist. But many center-left democrats, in particular Nancy Pelosi, have not only really rejected, but sometimes reinforced the broader Trump point: progressive democrats like Ocasio-Cortez are too radical to be at Congress.
