Trump's support among black voters tops 34% in a new Emerson poll, a shocking number that shockingly fits in among several other polls showing uncommonly high non-white support for the Republican president. This is bad news for Democrats as impeachment hearings wind down, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg winds up in the hospital, and more Democratic candidates enter the 2020 presidential race.
00:04:57.820That's not to say he's even close to getting a majority of non-white support, because historically, that's just not what happens for Republicans.
00:05:05.820So according to this new poll from Emerson, Trump has 34.5% support among black registered voters.
00:05:13.340During the Obama era, 90%, 92% voted for Barack Obama.
00:05:19.440And historically speaking, it's upwards of 90% that vote for the Democratic candidate, 85% to 90%, and then maybe 10% votes for the Republicans.
00:07:51.980Well, it's because their candidates are appealing to not just white people primarily,
00:07:56.540but to an extraordinarily slim set of white people.
00:07:59.620Look at the pitches being made by Elizabeth Warren, for instance.
00:08:02.460Elizabeth Warren, the whitest woman ever there was, whiter than the newly driven snow,
00:08:07.640and she pretended to be a Native American for her career, for professional advancement.
00:08:11.220That's not going to play very well among even people who are typically receptive toward democratic racial identity politics,
00:08:19.240because she's a race fraud and she's a race hustler.
00:08:21.780But even what she's pushing for are policies that appeal primarily to white, college-educated, suburban, metropolitan voters.
00:08:31.860So just her college plan, right, basically have everybody in the country subsidize the college education of the majority of Americans who go to college.
00:08:41.760Only a third of Americans go to college, and the people who do go to college and graduate skew disproportionately white.
00:08:49.220So you're now talking to people who are disproportionately non-white, disproportionately lower income,
00:08:55.180saying, hey, we're going to take your money and use that to pay for people who look like me.
00:08:59.700Not like Native American me, but white me, Elizabeth Warren.
00:09:02.380That doesn't play very well if you're playing the game of racial identity politics.
00:18:43.820He's not at his heart of hearts an identity politics candidate.
00:18:48.220He, if he were really running to be the, the sort of candidate that would give him the best chance of becoming a nominee, it would be more unifying.
00:29:10.460I think he's probably the least appealing candidate in the race, but you've got to see how he's pitching his candidacy.
00:29:17.680Because what his campaign pitch shows is that the Democrats, the left, are even more disconnected from the reality of politics in the Trump era than we thought.
00:29:29.920Because at first, we've just been seeing this insane leftward lurch among the Democratic candidates, which is likely to doom them in the general election.
00:29:39.080That's been the sort of fantasy of politics that they've been engaging in so far.
00:29:42.880But what we see here in the Mike Bloomberg campaign pitch is that they're diluting themselves in an entirely different way.
00:29:52.300Mike Bloomberg started as a middle-class kid who had to work his way through college, then built a business from a single room to a global entity, creating tens of thousands of good-paying jobs along the way.
00:30:06.080But when New York suffered the terrible tragedy of 9-11, he took charge, becoming a three-term mayor who brought a city back from the ashes and brought back jobs and hope with it.
00:30:47.460Mike Bloomberg lived off the fumes of Giuliani's New York and then he added a bunch of stupid nanny state regulations like you can't drink sodas, you can't drink big gulps, and you can't smoke in public.
00:33:28.500And when he's saying that, he's holding a gay pride flag, walking in ostensibly a gay pride parade.
00:33:32.980This raises the question, who is Mike Bloomberg's constituency?
00:33:37.060He's making the same mistake that all billionaires make.
00:33:40.460For some reason, I've had the privilege of meeting a few billionaires over the years.
00:33:47.000And one thing I've noticed about the majority of them is they believe, not all of them, but at least the ones I know from New York.
00:33:57.280They believe that what America's really yearning for is a candidate who's fiscally conservative and socially liberal.
00:34:06.260He doesn't get hung up on all those silly social issues like killing a million babies a year or redefining marriage, the bedrock of civilization.
00:34:50.600It's also the pride flag is not a great idea to get in there because it's going to turn off a lot of people after the LGBTQ movement has become the symbol of what you would call oppressive liberalism.
00:35:01.300I mean the drag queen story hour and sex education teaching your kids about disgusting things when they're in kindergarten and confusing people on sex and gender.
00:35:40.620The majority of millennials are identifying as socialists.
00:35:43.840That's the majority of millennials overall of all political stripes, certainly among Democratic primary voters.
00:35:49.500So he's just, he's giving himself a constituency of nobody.
00:35:53.540Then he makes the pitch from the pragmatic managerial experience that only King Michael Bloomberg can give you.
00:36:02.080He could have stopped there, but when he witnessed the terrible toll of gun violence, he put his money where his heart is,
00:36:08.120helping to create a movement to take on the NRA and the politicians they own to protect families across this country and help turn the tide.
00:36:16.540Andy's funded college educations for thousands of deserving low-income and middle-class kids and supported life-saving medical research
00:36:24.020and stood up to the coal lobby and the outright denial of this administration to protect the only home we have from the growing menace of climate change.
00:36:32.900King Michael, King Michael Bloomberg, only he can do it.
00:36:36.860He has donated his own money out of the goodness of his heart to push all of these sort of oppressive, often unconstitutional programs on the American people.
00:36:46.300He's able to do it because of his largesse and because he's got a lot of confidence and a big ego and a lot of institutional power.
00:38:44.780Vote for Mike Bloomberg and nothing will change.
00:38:47.980So, he just doesn't understand that on both the left and the right, right now, I think people are realizing that the status quo that we've had for now, what, 30, 40 years, is coming to an end.
00:39:05.280The status quo, you could call it whatever you want, call it neoliberalism, call it the post-war consensus, call it the post-cold war consensus, call it whatever you want.
00:39:15.380That's coming to an end because it's created some new, it was great, worked out for a long time, and now it has created some new problems that a new generation of politicians are going to have to address.
00:39:30.880Problems, if you're on the left, that you would call wealth inequality or climate change or whatever, right?
00:39:36.720These problems, whether they're real or imaginary, these are the problems that are the result of the very politics that Mike Bloomberg is trying to preserve.
00:39:46.680And nobody is going to go to the polls because Mike Bloomberg says that wealthy people are going to pay a little bit more in taxes.
00:39:54.260Nobody is going to go to the polls because Bloomberg says you're going to get a little bit of a raise in your same job that you don't really like.
00:40:01.700You're going to get a $2 raise or something.
00:40:04.620That is not going to convince anybody.
00:40:09.740That's all they can think of because their radical politics are extraordinarily unpopular.
00:40:13.840Whereas President Trump's radical politics are pretty popular.
00:40:16.860He's talking about issues that people care about.
00:40:19.540The negative effects of mass migration.
00:40:22.600The negative effects of unfettered free trade and mortgaging our country out to China, giving them all of our manufacturing and having them buy up all of our debt.
00:40:30.040He's addressing real problems with relatively more popular solutions.
00:41:02.580If your entire political program hinges on an elderly Supreme Court justice and you've got pretty much no other hope and nothing else to offer the American people, you are in serious trouble.
00:41:56.480I mean, that is such a, I guess, pun not intended, actually.
00:42:00.140But it's such a hollow, desiccated political agenda.
00:42:04.480Everything else, we have three branches of government, we've got federal, we've got state government, we've got local government, we've got all of these institutions of our government.
00:42:14.640And because the left has just completely lost the narrative, they've completely lost the point, they're now pinning all of their hopes, and their hopes are really, really ghoulish, on this one elderly Supreme Court justice who was appointed by Bill Clinton.
00:42:27.320I mean, it's just, it's a whole political movement now about nothing other than a couple of these little interests that are pretty repugnant to people.
00:42:38.600I mean, just look, just look at the Harvard-Yale football game.
00:42:41.020The Harvard-Yale football game was over the weekend.
00:42:44.360It's actually usually a pretty fun game because the tailgating gets pretty raucous, and then nobody actually watches the football game, and then everybody leaves and goes home.
00:42:52.920And this year, I'm sorry I missed it this year, not because of the football, I mean, Yale won, good job, way to go, guys.
00:42:59.720But because in the middle of the game, the whole game was interrupted by a protest of climate change, sort of.
00:43:10.000Over 150 Yale and Harvard students, alumni and faculty, stormed the field to demand divestment from fossil fuels to stop climate change.
00:43:19.080You showed them, guys, you showed climate change by protesting Harvard and Yale.
00:43:25.680And then, bizarrely, the protest of climate change became a protest of Puerto Rican debt.
00:44:02.140And so what these Yale and Harvard students are saying is that most of whom, I bet, are on financial aid, like I was.
00:44:09.500So they're actually there very likely because of the results of the investment office.
00:44:14.560But they're now criticizing the investment office and saying you can't invest in fossil fuels or Puerto Rican debt.
00:44:20.760You can't invest in companies that hold Puerto Rican debt.
00:44:23.800Puerto Rico, a very corrupt island which has mismanaged a lot of its funds and mismanaged its hurricane recovery funds.
00:44:29.600And so they've got a lot of debt, and then companies are buying up that debt to allow Puerto Rico to continue to exist, and you've got to divest from that.
00:44:46.280It's just, it's not an intellectual argument that the left is making, whether it's at the Democratic debates or in the impeachment hearings or at the Harvard-Yale football game.
00:45:05.360They're just saying words that don't have any meaning in any context of an argument.
00:45:10.700They're just saying random things because the left has nothing.
00:45:17.820And actually, just to put one final point on it before we go, I've got to get to the dumbest article on the Internet today.
00:45:23.640Ta-Nehisi Coates in the New York Times, the cancellation of Colin Kaepernick.
00:45:29.660The long and short of it is Ta-Nehisi Coates, a MacArthur genius, the guy who wrote about why we need to give the descendants of black slaves reparations in America.
00:45:41.100That guy is saying that Colin Kaepernick has been a victim of cancel culture, and this is a terrible, awful thing, and it doesn't make any sense.
00:45:56.660Any sober assessment of the history of America must conclude that the present objections to cancel culture are not so much concerned with the weapon as the kind of people who now seek to wield it.
00:46:10.640Quote, until recently, cancellation flowed exclusively downward from the powerful to the powerless.
00:46:16.680But now in this era of fallen gatekeepers, where anyone with a Twitter handle or Facebook account can be a publisher, banishment has been ostensibly democratized.
00:46:26.360This doesn't make any sense just on its face, but it's the same kind of gripes about oppression and the powerful and the powerless.
00:46:35.340By definition, cancel culture will flow from the powerful to the powerless, whether it's flowing from a corporate executive or from the democratic social media mob.
00:46:46.140The people who get canceled are, by definition, become the powerless, and the people who are able to do the canceling are the powerful.
00:46:53.660This is not just a matter of class or money or race or any other way you want to play identity politics.
00:47:00.860But then he gets to the heart of the NFL's problem.
00:47:03.980He says, the NFL is revered in this country as a paragon of patriotism and chivalry, a sacred trust controlled by some of the wealthiest men and women in America.
00:47:11.620For the past three years, this sacred trust has executed with brutal efficiency the cancellation of Colin Kaepernick.
00:47:18.080This is curious given the NFL's moral libertinism.
00:47:21.560The league has, at various points, been a home for domestic abusers, child abusers, and open racists.
00:47:57.040Colin Kaepernick disrespected not just some aspect of America, but the whole country itself.
00:48:02.580By disrespecting the national anthem, which is called the Star Spangled Banner, which is the flag, which is the symbol of the whole country.
00:48:10.880It turns out the people who watch America's new favorite pastime, who tune in to watch sporting events, which have always had a patriotic aspect to them, but especially football in this day and age.
00:48:20.920The people who tuned in and watched that didn't like it.
00:48:23.540They don't like it when you disrespect their whole country.
00:48:25.820And so, they didn't want to watch him, and Colin Kaepernick lost that job.
00:48:30.080And then he made millions of dollars with Nike, pitching sneakers, and trying to get Betsy Ross canceled.
00:48:35.420That is not an aspect of cancel culture.
00:48:39.640It is actually a demonstration of the cause of so much of our social strife, which is you've got multi, multi-millionaire Colin Kaepernick, who played in one of the most elite professions you can possibly be employed in.
00:48:53.880Being the subject of writing by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a man who has lived an unbelievably luxurious elite life, won the MacArthur Genius Grant, writing in the New York Times, best-selling author.
00:49:07.440And all these two guys can do is complain and pretend to be victims.
00:49:11.200Yale and Harvard students, at one of the most elite sporting events in the world, the Yale-Harvard football game, all they can do is complain and pretend to be victims.
00:49:18.960Those candidates up on the Democratic stage, all they can do is pretend that, woe is me, everybody's a victim, everybody's being oppressed.
00:50:05.460But I think that between a reasonable argument to the voters' interests and huffing and puffing and screeching about surreality, I think the great conservative consolation will hold.