Alyssa Farah, who served as Trump's Director of Strategic Communications, accused her former boss of using a racial "bullhorn" with his rant against "riggers".
He ran on a rather explicitly white nationalist campaign in the 2016 election. Heās never not been openly racist. Republican voters are demonstrably OK with that.
Even if a lot of his voters are OK with it, wouldnāt he still lose out on a lot of potential voters by throwing the N-word around and pissing of every non-white (and almost all white) voting american? Itās inflammatory without any upside? It just makes no sense to me.
wouldnāt he still lose out on a lot of potential voters
Again, no, he wouldnāt. Just because he hasnāt openly used the N-word doesnāt mean heās been evenly slightly coy about his racism. 100% of Trump voters already knew he was a white nationalist before they voted for him the first time. They either specifically like that about him, or just donāt care because itās something theyāre willing to accept as long as they get the regressive misogyny or whatever else they want from him. He represents an alliance of the worst people. Some are in it for the racism, others for controlling women, others just want naked authoritarianism. They understand itās a package deal and they are all on board with it.
He ran on a rather explicitly white nationalist campaign in the 2016 election. Heās never not been openly racist. Republican voters are demonstrably OK with that.
Even if a lot of his voters are OK with it, wouldnāt he still lose out on a lot of potential voters by throwing the N-word around and pissing of every non-white (and almost all white) voting american? Itās inflammatory without any upside? It just makes no sense to me.
Again, no, he wouldnāt. Just because he hasnāt openly used the N-word doesnāt mean heās been evenly slightly coy about his racism. 100% of Trump voters already knew he was a white nationalist before they voted for him the first time. They either specifically like that about him, or just donāt care because itās something theyāre willing to accept as long as they get the regressive misogyny or whatever else they want from him. He represents an alliance of the worst people. Some are in it for the racism, others for controlling women, others just want naked authoritarianism. They understand itās a package deal and they are all on board with it.