... By scaring them about other minorities.
Donald Trump says he loves minorities. “Nothing means more to me than working to make our party the home of the African-American vote,” he told a white crowd in Iowa over the weekend. As evidence, he cited “what’s been happening over the last two weeks and three weeks with me”—a series of speeches in which Trump, according to himself, has been reaching out to blacks and Hispanics.
I’ve watched these speeches. They’re a perfect encapsulation of who Trump is. While mouthing platitudes about inclusiveness, he systematically courts certain minorities—or, rather, courts white voters who are skittish about supporting a racist—by pledging to protect them from other minorities. Even when he poses as the candidate of love and unity, Trump reveals himself as the candidate of hostility and division.
Trump’s suck-up to minorities began on Aug. 16, when Kellyanne Conway, a pollster who wanted to make him more broadly palatable, became his campaign manager. That day, speaking in Wisconsin, Trump pledged to "reject bigotry and hatred and oppression in all of its many ugly forms." But one form of bigotry became the centerpiece of his pitch to minorities: blaming their troubles on immigrants. “No community in this country has been hurt worse by Hillary Clinton’s immigration and all of her policies than the African-American community,” Trump told the crowd. He warned that Clinton would allow “millions of illegal immigrants to come in and take everybody’s job, including low-income African Americans.”
Trump pretended that he wasn’t appealing to prejudice, since he was targeting “illegal immigrants,” not immigrants in general. But two days later, speaking in North Carolina, he went after legal immigrants. He blasted Clinton for proposing to allow “Syrian refugees” into the United States, flooding the country with Sharia lovers “who believe in oppressing women, gays, Hispanics, African Americans, and people of different faiths.”
To women offended by his past sexist comments, and to gays alarmed by his opposition to same-sex marriage, Trump offered this consolation: At least I’ll save you from the Muslims.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/09/how_trump_sucks_up_to_minorities.html
Donald Trump says he loves minorities. “Nothing means more to me than working to make our party the home of the African-American vote,” he told a white crowd in Iowa over the weekend. As evidence, he cited “what’s been happening over the last two weeks and three weeks with me”—a series of speeches in which Trump, according to himself, has been reaching out to blacks and Hispanics.
I’ve watched these speeches. They’re a perfect encapsulation of who Trump is. While mouthing platitudes about inclusiveness, he systematically courts certain minorities—or, rather, courts white voters who are skittish about supporting a racist—by pledging to protect them from other minorities. Even when he poses as the candidate of love and unity, Trump reveals himself as the candidate of hostility and division.
Trump’s suck-up to minorities began on Aug. 16, when Kellyanne Conway, a pollster who wanted to make him more broadly palatable, became his campaign manager. That day, speaking in Wisconsin, Trump pledged to "reject bigotry and hatred and oppression in all of its many ugly forms." But one form of bigotry became the centerpiece of his pitch to minorities: blaming their troubles on immigrants. “No community in this country has been hurt worse by Hillary Clinton’s immigration and all of her policies than the African-American community,” Trump told the crowd. He warned that Clinton would allow “millions of illegal immigrants to come in and take everybody’s job, including low-income African Americans.”
Trump pretended that he wasn’t appealing to prejudice, since he was targeting “illegal immigrants,” not immigrants in general. But two days later, speaking in North Carolina, he went after legal immigrants. He blasted Clinton for proposing to allow “Syrian refugees” into the United States, flooding the country with Sharia lovers “who believe in oppressing women, gays, Hispanics, African Americans, and people of different faiths.”
To women offended by his past sexist comments, and to gays alarmed by his opposition to same-sex marriage, Trump offered this consolation: At least I’ll save you from the Muslims.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/09/how_trump_sucks_up_to_minorities.html
