Many note Trump's limited constituency--what Democrats have slurred as "the basket of deplorable", i.e. the less educated middle working classes and poor whites. Let us remember that Trump increased the Republican vote share of blacks and Latinos well above prior elections, and more of the “sludge” of our nation voted for him than any other re-election campaign in history. Fortunately, in 2020 we were saved by an excess of superior elites, the better angels of our nation, along with those few uneducated poor/blacks/Latinos who lived through Democratic suppression (slavery, post Civil War revocation of Republican Reconstruction, Democratically sponsored Ku Klux Klan, the progressivism of racist Woodrow Wilson, Jim Crow laws and segregation of the Democratic South) only to thrive in complete dependency on the Democratic program of the War on Poverty. Look at the numbers in black America from the 1950's and before, and compare them to what has grown from our top down Federal progra…
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