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Yesterday, I appended a link to an
article by David Horowitz at FrontPage Magazine. It was an afterthought posted
on the blog about Rep. Marcia Fudge’s
complaining that Trump rallies are not attended by people of color. Horowitz’s
article is worth a blog on its own. The entire article is here, under the title "Donald Trump’s Lincolnesque Moment: A landmark in the emergence of a new
Republican Party”. Here’s a take-away:
Trump’s Dimondale speech
was a pledge to African Americans trapped in the blighted zones and killing
fields of inner cities exclusively ruled by Democrats for half a century and
more, and exploited by their political leaders for votes, and also used as
fodder for slanders directed at their Republican opponents. This was his
appeal:
Tonight, I am asking for the vote of every African-American citizen in this country who wants a better future. The inner cities of our country have been run by the Democratic Party for 50 years. Their policies have produced only poverty, joblessness, failing schools, and broken homes. It is time to hold Democratic Politicians accountable for what they have done to these communities. It is time to hold failed leaders accountable for their results, not just their empty words.
Time to hold the
Democrats responsible for what they have done. For twenty years I and many
others on the right have waited for Republican leaders to do just this. Until
now we have despaired of seeing this happen in our lifetimes. But here is Trump
articulating the very message we have been waiting for - support for America’s
inner city poor – a message that should have been front and center of every
Republican campaign for the last fifty years.
Trump: “Look at what the Democratic Party has done to the city of Detroit. Forty percent of Detroit’s residents live in poverty. Half of all Detroit residents do not work. Detroit tops the list of Most Dangerous Cities in terms of violent crime. This is the legacy of the Democrat politicians who have run this city. This is the result of the policy agenda embraced by Hillary Clinton…. The one thing every item in Hillary Clinton’s agenda has in common is that it takes jobs and opportunities from African-American workers. Her support for open borders. Her fierce opposition to school choice. Her plan to massively raise taxes on small businesses. Her opposition to American energy. And her record of giving our jobs away to other countries.”
Tying the fight to
liberate African Americans and other minorities from the violent urban
wastelands in which Democrats have trapped them to his other proposals– secure
borders, law and order to make urban environments safe, jobs for American
workers, putting Americans first – these are a sure sign that Trump has an
integrated vision of the future towards which he is working. Call it populism
if you will. To me it seems like a clear-eyed conservative plan to restore
American values and even to unify America’s deeply fractured electorate.
I love this line:
“America must reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton who sees communities of
color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future.” Yes
African Americans and other Americans too are suffocating under the racism of
the Democratic Party which takes African Americans for granted and lets the
communities of the most vulnerable sink ever deeper into a maelstrom of poverty
and violence without end.
Read the rest here. Whether you
support Trump or not, his message should be heard by anyone who considers
him- or herself a Tea Party person.
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