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And yet any kind of recognition of this historic wrong is considered to be the real racism.
or what they love to say is reverse racism.
No, I don't think they would.
Let's be real.
I think like in the absence of any sort of real material change that Donald Trump said he was going to bring.
Right.
Because he ran on and won on a historic unpopularity around the economy.
Right.
There were a lot of people who were frustrated with the way things were going.
They experienced a year and a half of negative real wage growth under Joe Biden.
And they never forgot about that.
And they wanted to they wanted to, I guess, that paired up with the racialized animus wanted to vote for Donald Trump once again.
And now that he's not delivering on that agenda, the only thing he can do.
is weaponize ICE as a Gestapo force on blue cities, punish Democratic leadership all around the country in any way, shape or form he can, and really beef up the white nativist anti-migrant strategy and also engage in unvarnished, vulgar white supremacist sentiment like this.
So there is an expectation from the base that he does this.
But it's a it's a I guess the the
The advantage here, the silver lining here, if you can even find one, is that that base of support is diminishing.
It's like around 20 percent, I would say, of the diehard ultra mega loyalists that want this.
I like to call it vice signaling from the president because they have nothing else to look forward to.
So they want to like they want groups of people to look down upon.