Thursday, 3 November 2016

Early, but less often

Enthusiasm curbed

PAULETTE SMITH is so keen on Donald Trump that she wrote a tune about him. “God’s not running for president,” she sang before a rally in Marietta, Georgia, attended by his daughters, Ivanka and Tiffany, “So he sent Donald Trump to make America great again.” There is a dance to go with it, called the Trump Train. Ms Smith, who is black, is untroubled by the Republican nominee’s attitude to women or portrayal of inner cities as “war zones”. “He’s telling the truth,” she insisted.

At a get-together with black business-owners in nearby Atlanta, a city with a well-established black elite, Donald Trump junior reiterated his father’s view that blacks had nothing to lose by picking him—a grim pitch to which, belatedly, Mr Trump has added some thoughts on school choice and investment incentives. Alveda King, a niece of Martin Luther King, announced that she had already voted for him; her uncle might have done so too, she reckoned, out of concern for family breakdown. That old (if eroding) strain of social conservatism may be the main reason for Republicans to think they can one day regain some...Continue reading

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