I want our side to win elections and given the current makeup of the typical American voter, we have to do more. Simply saying the other guy is bad or assume that just because Republicans are scum that we shouldn’t be out there trying to earn every vote isn’t enough because if it were, we don’t have Trump in office right now. We can’t hide our heads in the sand and play the what about game when there is real weakness in our party’s ability to keep Black and Latino voters engaged consistently and we have to figure this out now. Other commentators much smarter than me have been sounding the alarm on this issue and that the consultants in our party don’t have a pulse or engagement in the communities that we want to reach and are often only showing up occasionally while Republicans are knocking on doors and showing up. For as much of a racist scumbag Trump is him trying to do the “platinum plan” him talking about HBCU funding (less than Biden provided) and him talking about Black jobs were all incredibly effective. These actions were all performative and I doubt he got meaningful Black support or votes from this, but I can’t count how many arguments I had with young Black men at the barbershop that were either going to vote third party or vote for Trump and they would always bring up the things I mentioned. Most of these young men said “at least Trump is trying to earn my vote and talking to my issues instead of always running after White rural voters”. This is a problem. For whatever reason our side is very hesitant to actively and aggressively court Black and Latino voters with specific agenda items targeting them. We take the rising tides lift all boats approach but that can only get you so far. I wish we would be as aggressive keeping the most loyal part of the base engaged similar to what we do to court other groups.
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