Red Team Negro Worship
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More people voting GOP is not "IDPol". You just like to brand anything as that in order to justify IDPol for white people.
That's a separate issue. If the mentality sells, it's because it is appealing at this moment. If you view things differently, then sell that mentality to people so this is no longer appealing.
People won't stop caring about black people simply because the GOP stops using these appeals. That's not how things work, and it's surprising that a normally crafty strategic realist like you would not see that.
You are talking about pandering to Hispanics, right? The GOP already does a ton of that, too.
You've got this all turned on its head. The white GOP voter base never had any in-built fondness or care for blacks. To the extent they have that at all, it's because of propaganda like this.
The GOP isn't pandering to its voters. It's trying to shape their worldview. It doesn't even appear to be very appealing at the moment, either, considering the GOP's underwhelming performance lately. 2016 Trump showed you what worked - anti-immigration, anti-crime, anti-intervention, snubbing corporate interest in favor of populism. The GOP, including him, would just rather lose than live up to that rhetoric.
I'm talking about the fact that the GOP focused mostly on blacks, for no gain at all, while Hispanics increased their vote for the GOP by 10 percentage points for rather little effort at all.
As you well know, GOP weak on immigration policies have nothing to do with appealing to Hispanics and everything to do with the rich donor class.
Everyone cares about his fellow man. Surely, you'd rather not that the neighborhoods of blacks be lawless hellholes where you get shot on your way to school.
And yet 2016 Trump also said "what do you have to lose".
Again, this is because they are selling blacks to the their voters. It takes a lot of propaganda to overwhelm the ~489K crimes blacks commit against whites a year.
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There is no politically correct way to stop that, and the GOP makes it worse with their First Step Acts and Platinum Plans. If I were seriously tasked with solving black urban crime, I would do the opposite of that, strict and draconian enforcement of positive social norms throughout the public school system.
That didn't win over black voters, but at least wasn't selling ideological poison to his white voters with it.
I don't think they care about blacks one way or the other. I think they care about getting into office, whether or not blacks are 'sold' to their voters or not.
So you would prefer that black neighborhoods not be lawless hellholes. If you do, consider how much the more that will be the case for the average GOP voter.
How is this statement any different from that?