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My Take — 05

American Politics has Become a Matter of Black or White.

Richard Crim
7 min readNov 8, 2022

Whose side you are on, says exactly who you are.

There is no middle. Appealing to “the sensible middle” is why Biden is failing.

Trump got more votes than any candidate in US history. Except for Biden.

Now consider who voted for Trump.

2 out 3 White Americans voted for Trump (42% of the voting pool)

1 out of 10 Black Americans voted for Trump (1% of the voting pool)

1 out of 3 Hispanic Americans voted for Trump (6% of the voting pool)

1 in 50 Asian, Pacific Islander, Indigenous Americans voted for Trump (effectively 0% of the voting pool).

That’s the 49% of the country that voted Trumpublican in 2020.

7 out of every 8 people who voted for Trump were WHITE.

Forget the carefully staged audiences at Trumpublican rallies. This is what Trump Nation really looks like.

Those White Americans, that 42% of the population, represents 139 million people. That’s the Trumpublican party, the “Trump Nation”. WHITE and not afraid to vote their racism.

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Richard Crim
Richard Crim

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My entire life can be described in one sentence: Things didn’t go as planned, and I’m OK with that.

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