Adam Serwer

I'm not sure how much these numbers that Trump has put up, you know, improving with voters of color who would normally vote Republican turning out and those who are not staying home.

The other theory was that once the Republican Party started earning these votes, that they would moderate on these issues.

You know, Stephen Miller has not become any less ideologically committed to socially engineering America.

We have a whites only refugee program.

You know, that's shocking to me.

I think about it every day.

And I don't like to me, that's a five alarm scandal, but it's just sort of like something that's in the ether.

The administration has banned travel from like almost every majority non-white country in the world.

Again, I think that this is an artifact of Trump's image being so cemented in the minds of a lot of low information voters that they simply don't believe any of the stuff that comes out about him or they're not paying attention or they just think of him as

As the guy that they saw in The Apprentice, I do think there's an element of denial involved just based on personal experience with, you know, non-white Trump voters in my own family.

There is just a tremendous denial that he is this person.

They don't want to believe it.

They want to believe that he's the guy that they want him to be.

I mean, you know, ideally in the long term, you do want some kind of racial depolarization because that means that those issues are no longer, you know, a central part of American life.

Right.

Yeah.

Ideally, that comes from broad social and economic equality, the end of racism, basically, not from a kind of authoritarian depolarization where you have voters who are attracted to authoritarian governance, even if it comes from a candidate who is surrounded fundamentally by people who are ideological white nationalists who think being an American is about being white.

To your point that this is the voters' fault, I mean, I don't think there's any way to argue with that.

They picked him.

I think that they were delusional to some extent.