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A grim view of the country under Trump by Black Americans. Sobering truths ahead of King Day. washingtonpost.com/politics/black…
We talk a lot on my show (and black journalists and political scientists have long discussed) the deep pessimism about America --and about white peers -- that Trump's presidency has created among Black Americans. This data absolutely backs that up.
Grim views all around, about the Trump era.
And the views are striking when compared to the relative optimism during the Obama and even George W. Bush eras.
The interviews with respondents are particularly tough.
And so here we are. Good for the @washingtonpost talking with a group of voters the media has not spent much ink on, and whose views are tough, but just as valid as the views of all those Trump voters in diners.
One more clip, re how this could impact 2020:
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This is good advice. Clinton lost an Electoral College race in a jump-ball election: ie a COMPARISON battle w/ a hardcore R base vs a fractured Dem base. A re-elect should be a REFERENDUM on the incumbent + 2 hardcore bases. It should be about keeping the president or not.
Trump targeted Biden & baits Bernie because he wants to re-create 2016: a comparison race + fractured Dems. Incumbents mostly win because they are a known quantity & voters tend to keep them if they can render the replacement unacceptable (switfboated Kerry or 47 percent Romney).
IOW any incumbent-from mayor to president-should be treated as a frontrunner. Incumbents are hard to beat barring some fatal misstep like Bush I raising taxes (helped the economy but broke a major promise) or maybe impeachment? Polls are fine but dont assume winning will be easy.
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It is so deeply ironic to hear Ken Starr ... KEN STARR!!! ... argue that removing a president through impeachment is too grave a disruption without a bipartisan consensus. Bill Clinton won a popular vote AND EC vote TWICE; he was popular, and his impeachment was purely political.
Honest question to Republicans: what possible threat to national or domestic security did Clinton's consensual affair with a 24-year-old intern pose to this country? What threat did him lying about it out of embarrassment pose? What motive did Rs have to impeach besides party?
Ken Starr led that charge. He seemed to revel in it. Now he squares up to try and invalidate an impeachment based on an actual threat to national security and to a pending election, through the abuse of powers ONLY the president has? What planet is this?
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To repeat my metaphor from earlier on @MSNBC & translate the Trump impeachment to regular-people-ese, say your state had a natural disaster, congress approved aid, and the president told your governor he could only get the $ if he announced an investigation of the lieut governor,
who plans to run for president in the upcoming cycle. It's about the president using governmental powers unique to him, for the sole purpose of getting himself re-elected. Now add that the natural disaster put national security assets at stake. That's what Trump did re Ukraine.
Ok it's actually an analogy but you get the idea 😌
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