I think something missed in the election analysis & why folk voted for Trump is:

White Trump voters repudiating white democratic voters

The oldest national dispute

Countless articles are written about the racism & misogyny but none/few about what I see as the main issue We’re quick to racialize the results because that is the foundation of the nation and because it’s certainly correct

It’s also correct that our society is hyper patriarchal

But we tend to ignore small and in this case the larger issue: whites rejecting other whites

It’s so odd that folk descended from the *actual working class, ie enslaved folk, who fought like hell to get any jobs and who today have a population that is *mostly working class..

Watch as Bernard, media, & so-called democratic strategists only see white men as working class What the voices-mostly men, are saying, is “please take care of white men, the most important people in the nation.”

The centuries-long coddling of that one demographic is the main reason for every backwards move the nation has ever and probably will ever make.

Media personalities quiet about Olivia Nuzzi running a smear campaign & her past racism, w/some even rallying around her because she is “young”

These the same folk who went to dinner with Sarah Huckabee when she stepped down as spokesperson after she disrespected them for years These are the same folk, especially men, who circle the wagons around Maggie Haberman every couple months.

The same folk who never come to the defense of any Black women journalists who are attacked by Trump inc.

Funny how that is, huh?

I need to remember that for the debate VP Harris isn’t trying to win my vote.

She’s probably gonna emphasize the broadness of her policies that’ll help “undecided” and republicans who are done with Trump be reassured.

“Winning” looks different than her speaking at DNC imo. I’d love her to go after him with fire and fury every time she speaks and refutes his bullcrap.

As good as that would make me feel I don’t believe that’s the approach *most Americans want to see in that setting.

I think they want her Presidential- however you define it

Palestinian’s greatest enemy is Hamas. The citizens won’t progress until Hamas are out of power & cast to the terrorist dustbin of history

Domestic protestors are harming peace progress,& are lackeys for Trump, Putin, Iran

Blaming Israel, Black folk, VP, & does nothing to help. Netanyahu is worse than Trump right now but effectively showing Trump and the western world how Trump too would disregard international demands and domestic protests to preserve his administration while killing enemies and noncombatants

I think a major reason the actions by the wealthy elites who are trying bypass VP & have her “apply” for the job against all their favorites..

Is so offensive to Black, brown, & Asian women because this happens every day in corporate America to them.

This is resonating deeply. They’re operating in an exclusive room where there’s little to no diversity. They, like their republican counterparts, are determined to place additional hurdles for minority candidates and back date those hurdles to the person doing the job.

This is 101 anti Black/Brown woman

The Black people, mostly men, who like to blame democrats for <everything> now get to point to elected democrats also blaming the party, president, and vice president..for <everything>

Those elected democrats doing that really tells me they’re only in the party for themselves They talk like democrats, and fundraise off democrats, but when democratic voters make our choice (s) known, they rebelled and, like their maga friends, they work w/media to usurp our will.

We followed their rules and laws and put Biden/Harris in office & up for reelection.

There’s no path forward for president Biden to exact revenge or worse, violence, with the power the Supreme Court just gave him.

It can temporarily feel good as a democratic voter to suggest it but america’s end hastens if such acts occur.

I think folk intuitively know that. It can momentarily feel good to express our own anger to suggest he “take out the SC, nuke maralago, send deal team 6 to get folk, etc” but temporary turns into nonstop violent retribution.

Dems loudly complaining for 3 years that big media ignores President Biden’s daily speeches. They rarely carry him live.

Now after one debate every media stooge, podcast bro, never trumpers, and big Twitter accounts suddenly are the loudest anti-Biden voices.

They ain’t slick It’s just funny all those haughty people are suddenly overly invested in what democrats should do.

Like, they haven’t cared about what democrats have done for 3 years.

And they certainly haven’t objectively and consistently reported on dem results.

There’s an interesting divide on the Jasmine Crockett rebuttal to the unprovoked attack on her by Marjorie Green, and it’s one that like most issues in America is divided by race.
Black women and men side with Rep Jasmine, especially BW who are sick of attacks on their bodies. Attacks by everyone but especially by WW. The co-opting of BW thickness, lips, hips, hair & makeup, while simultaneously denigrating the same features in BW.

The laws against BW hair that necessitated the Crown Act.

And BW proclaiming their preference of the bear & ww anger

Foreign Cargo ship accidentally crashes into & collapsing bridge, killing immigrant workers

None of the crew or workers were Black

Republicans blame Black mayor & Governor & DEI

Mass & Social media pushes the message, even asking mayor & Governor if DEI caused crash

I just.. Disasters happen, there’s a national effort to rally around the locations affected. The cities, businesses, states, the people

This disaster in Baltimore?

Nah, fuk them, republicans and online mostly WP loudly yell.

Black people are in proximity so.. its gotta be their fault

For *me I don’t care if you’re a democrat, if you join the racists in talking points about N E Thing anti-Black

You deserve the dragging you get. And I won’t support you ever. Period.

Too many white democrats, mostly men, quickly side with republicans over the base of the party

https://twitter.com/myronjclifton/status/1773083005503803608

Then their supporters come to their defense with “But they’ve done good work” …as if the “now” of their racism is excused by their past works

Nope. There’s too much at stake to give passes to democrats more interested in appeasing repubs than supporting Black & brown voters.

Still can't believe a man tried to overthrow a presidential election, had help from numerous federally elected & state elected officials and widely known political operatives

And was supported by multiple foreign agents and heads of state

Is allowed to run for president Not a single leader of the insurrection is in jail or even tried.

Justice takes time
This is complex
Justice Department has to get it right
They only get one chance to get him/them

Those excuses are white supremacy talking points.

You know another vile thing about those anti-Biden folk MSNBC (and other cable news) continue to platform?

They talk about hurting Biden/democrats by not voting for him, but the real people they'll hurt are the people *only democrats help.

Black people

The producers know this They tell their viewers those folk are the base of the party, knowing that is a lie. They don't tell them their sordid history - one is a communist/DSA stooge, the other a mulism anti-democratic criminal, & another just got a huge grant due to Biden/Harris policies.

I remember going to welfare office with my mom and watching her have to justify being poor to the white lady who would decide if we could have food stamps. Her sneering questions about why my mom had 3 kids, why she only had seasonal work, and why she didn’t sell her wedding ring Mom calmly answered every question for herself and my disappeared father who was out on the streets somewhere

The lady’s supervisor, a white man, came to punctuate the insults by telling mom she was pretty enough to keep a man so he couldn’t understand why she needed food stamps

I honestly don't understand why republicans run & elect such awful men.

I am 59 and know, worked with, & lived by wonderful white men & women who could be good candidates

There are millions in the country like them but the gop goes to Trump, Lindsey, Gaetz, Mitch, Tuberville Why does that party go so low to elect those guys?

We always hear about democrats appealing to rural white voters, soccer moms, and blue collar white men..

But rarely hear why repubs don't appeal to regular Black & brown folk by running a reasonable candidate that appeals to us

Nikki Haley is destroying the republican party and it is wonderful to see.

She raised $50M in the 2nd of of 2023-outraising trump, and so he is threatening her donors.
(screenshot by @ cwebbonline).

What will happen as we move closer to the election?

A complete GOP breakdown. Last election republicans tried to stop the counting of votes in key states and districts. Simultaneously they were working the courts to stop counting democratic votes, and telling state republican officials to declare trump the winner

They held the election and nation hostage

The other thing about that lady whining about her “nephew” not getting into an Ivy League school..

So many Americans just can’t do simple maths.

97% who try don’t get in.

You are competing against American and foreigners. That’s why there are, surprise, other schools. Some of the anger really baffles me.

Like, the realization that you bought into superiority then got rejected really makes them hate…

Black folk even more.

Why?

Why is the default for these folk always to hate BLACK folk, specifically, more?

Okay

My response to anyone telling me they won’t vote for Biden

I’m not gonna proselytize to grownups who know exactly what’ll happen if republicans win

I don’t care about your religion race gender your country of origin

Campaign against democrats? you are dead to me

Okay Half the folk saying that aren’t even eligible to vote in this country.

A quarter won’t bother to vote.

Stop wasting my time and playing in my face.

You know what’s right to do but if you choose to follow idiots off the cliff that’s on you, you big dummy.

I’m really proud how so many folk are educating Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar (Cardi B) on why it’s not President Biden’s fault NYC mayor Adams is a fuck up. And speaking out against her definitive statement saying she isn’t voting for POTUS.

Her statements are misguided & harmful Cardi B, Killer Mike, Kanye, and other entertainers spouting anti democratic misinformation and nonsense, along with Black male rappers paying their way out of abuse accusations-Sean Combs being just the latest- reminds me that millionaire entertainers aren’t voting guideposts.

I think so many folk say something like "It's too complicated" when talking - or not talking -about the middle east/war between Israel & Hamas is because in this country we're socialized to see our issues in black and white, literally.

The truth here is far more complicated. Black people long ago became the 2nd largest minority but you'd never know it because all social advancements, battles, laws, school books, and elections are presented as binary - Black vs. white.