“In four short years, Donald Trump has had exactly the opposite effect on the country than he intended. Majorities across all racial groups support the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. The ‘radical left’ is mainstream and backed by 60-70 percent of the country on many of the questions on which Trump has forced conflict” writes Matt Lewis in the Daily Beast.
“Trump did this! His nastiness and belligerence has turned off many Americans, both moderate and otherwise apolitical people. As Trump forces them to make a binary choice between him and BLM, they choose BLM, even if they don’t agree with the entirety of its agenda.”
“There’s a certain irony here. This never would have happened if Hillary Clinton had been president.”
“But it’s not just BLM where this is happening. Conservatives who voted for Trump assuming that he would be our savior (‘but he fights!’) find themselves in an America where statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and even Frederick Douglass are in danger of being vandalized or toppled, even as the GOP’s electoral standing is ever more tenuous.”