Ex-President Donald Trump

Why? Is your life better now than under Trump?
Did he "put ya'll in chains" as Biden harped?
Did you think "you ain't black" if you voted for Trump, as Biden yelled at you?
Are you "failures as black men" as Obama scolded you for not supporting female Harris, warning you on top "you were lucky Michelle wasn't there to put you in your place."??

Are you "putting yourself before your wives" as Michelle scolded you, when she did show up?

Why are you nervous?

 

Could you Marry a Black Man if Trump or any other Republican was in charge?

 

I am personally better off financially and professionally. In addition, I have noted in the states with which I am familiar (Florida, Illinois, Tennessee, Georgia (Atlanta, primarily), Missouri, Indiana) an increasingly angry, anti-science and anti-pluralist undercurrent in the majority ethnic group. I have always felt a bit apprehensive about the potential for a backlash against social progress for historically disadvantaged subsets of the population, but I have never felt that it was as imminent as now. I hope that I'm wrong, however.

That being said, I think the Democrats share much of the blame for their own party's slow decline. Since the Southern Strategy, the Dems have seemed more concerned about winning back the support of anti-Civil Rights white voters than they are about strengthening their support among people of color and especially among working people generally. From NAFTA forward, the Dems' policies have increasingly represented more the professional / managerial class and socially liberal wealthy. That's not to let Republicans off the hook either, since they primarily represent the industrial and extractive industries and the socially reactionary. Neither party does an adequate job of defending the economic interests of working people and the resulting frustration leaves them ready recipients of demagogic messaging.