How Black People Made Trump President in 2016

How Black People Made Trump President in 2016

By

David Gottfried

Today, I suffered the sound and sight of Jim Clyburn  on my TV screen.  He is a black congressman from the intellectually backward state of South Carolina and he  crucified Bernie Sanders twice:  He slaughtered Bernie’s campaign in 2016, in the South Carolina primary, on behalf of the ice queen, Hillary Clinton, and he slaughtered Bernie in 2020 on behalf of Joe Biden, a man who the media tells us is a working class guy from Scranton but whose buddies in the Senate, according to the New York Times, called the “Senator from Mastercard.”  The Times said this on one of its back pages several years ago; I am sure the Times won’t repeat the allegation now.  

Jim Clyburn, quite predictably, railed about Donald  Trump.  I agree with his denunciation of Duncey Donald Duck Trump.   It is as plain as day that Trump is the veritable incarnation of assholism.    If I close my eyes when he speaks, I experience synesthesia (I used to get this with very good pot that no one sells in these benighted times) , or a blending of the senses, and his voice smells like the odor of really raunchy diarrhea.     

Although Clyburn’s attack on Trump was right on the money, I was irked when he delivered the familiar black sermon excoriating white racism.     When, for Christ sakes, will he own up to the fact that black people made Trump President.

This is how they did it:

1) They defeated Bernie Sanders.    Sanders tied Clinton in Iowa, beat her with a whopping sixty percent of the vote in New Hampshire and he narrowly lost Nevada (He lost Nevada because Harry Reid induced hotel operators to give their employees long lunch hours to vote, and he induced the union representing hotel workers to do everything but literally take employees by the hand to the polls with stern instructions to vote for Madame Hillary).  And then came South Carolina, where blacks own the Democratic primary, and a thunderous majority of Southern Carolina’s ignorant voters cast their ballots for Queen Clinton.  South Carolina was quickly succeeded by a flurry of fried chicken and chitlins primaries in assorted god forsaken Southern states, none of which deserve to control the selection of the Democratic nominee since they routinely give all their electoral votes to the Republican candidate for President.  After Dixie delivered a ton of delegates to Clinton, Bernie was drawn and quartered and decapitated.  There are many reasons why blacks should have not voted for Clinton, but that would take another essay and I have been advised that my essays are already too long.     

2) Because Hillary and not Bernie became the nominee, Democrats were pilloried by working class white voters.   First, working class democrats could not take to a Clinton as they have “wised-up” about what Clintonism means:   Ever since Bill Clinton and Al Gore founded the Democratic Leadership Council in 1986, the Clintons made a concerted effort to neuter the Democratic Party of its working class affiliations.   Sure, Bill “behaved working class,” ostentatiously affecting an addiction for junk food, Elvis Pressley and the like, but he de industrialized America with Nafta, signed off on the deregulation of derivatives, eviscerated hard fought depression-era barriers between commercial and investment backing and although he made the poor a little less poor, he showered trillions on the gilded, guilty millionaires who, in the words of Harry Truman, were “gluttons of privilege” and “bloodsuckers.”

Bernie, by contrast, was a Democrat who truly cared about the working class.   He was the sort of Democrat that does not exist anymore. 
Consequently, he got the votes of poor whites who stopped voting Democratic ever since the Democratic Party forgot about economics and became wedded to race and identity policies.  He won the Wisconsin and Michigan primaries, skewering Hillary in poor, white semi-rural regions.  

He won West Virginia overwhelmingly, another state that went red that Bernie could have won.

(Charles Blow, A black columnist for the Times, ignorantly said that Bernie won West Virginia simply because it was a Southern State filled with white racists.  Obviously, that Negro cretin did not know that a) West Virginia came into existence because it found fault with the confederacy and seceded from Virginia when Virginia seceded from the Union, b) was a mountainous state whose terrain was not amenable to a plantation, slave economy, c) was a coal mining state whose working class politics were forged in the crucible of fiery strikes and battles at the dawn of the 20th century, d) proved just how unbigoted it was in the 1960 Presidential primary by voting for John F. Kennedy even though it was 96 percent Protestant and e) was one of only ten states that Michael Dukakis won in 1988.  But the affirmative action mandarins of Cambridge and the Upper East Side have decreed that Charles Blow will prosper and that yours truly is white trash.)     

Bernie won Italian neighborhoods in Staten Island, New York that had voted for Ronald Reagan and George Bush.   These working-class white voters would not go for Hillary whose version of “liberalism” was purged of the Rooseveltian impulse to assist labor and poor people regardless  of race.  To Hillary, poor white people were irredeemables and deplorables who only cared about silly things like G-d and guns.  But Hillary could count on the black vote, Right?  Read on.

3)  ODD AS IT MAY SEEM, BLACK PEOPLE, AFTER HAVING GIVEN HILLARY THE NOMINATION, DID NOT VOTE FOR HILLARY IN THE AUTUMN IN SUFFICIENT NUMBERS WHEN SHE RAN AGAINST TRUMP.   You don’t believe me?  Go to google and put it search terms such as Detroit, election returns, 2016, 2012 and presidential race.

Of course, Hillary swept back neighborhoods.   However, her margins were far beneath the margins that Obama had garnered.  Very simply, the number of  votes cast for Hillary Clinton in places like Detroit was far, far below the number of votes cast for Barack Obama in 2012.    Trump’s victory was birthed in the senescence and political senility of black America.

Some sources contend that the black vote plummeted because of Russian sabotage.   I have no doubt that Russian sabotage played a part in depressing black turnout.   However, I nevertheless harbor a decided measure of contempt and ire toward blacks who bought the bullshit that the Russians were peddling.  Much of what the Russians said would have been disregarded by any person with the slightest semblance of political sophistication.  

For example, I heard one black guy, on the eve of the 2016 election, proffer this excuse for staying home from the polls:   Hillary’s middle name is Rodham.  Rodham is similar to the name Rothschild.  Ergo, Hillary was in league with rich Jews who oppress black people.  I absolutely swear to G-d that I heard a black guy say this.   

Now, before I leave you I must note that I have known many bright and energetic black people and they carried the torch for Bernie when they could, and they are interesting, talented and beautifully cool.  However  a huge proportion of the black community consists of obese church ladies, drug addicts and thugs, and I am sorry if I seem disagreeable and politically offensive (hell, maybe I should can it; I am not sorry for sounding disagreeable), but I am white, and I have lived in and around and with a lot of black people through most of my life, and my experiences with black people have inoculated me against “Isn’t Sidney Portier wonderful” liberal fantasies.