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...Black YouTubers Supporting Donald Trump

Yes, this is a real thing. No, not every black YouTuber is supporting Donald Trump. But given the near monopoly that the Democrats have had in recent years over the black vote, this trend is noteworthy.

I have listened to some of these, particularly for the reasoning being employed. I will give two such reasons here.

Donald Trump: the Persecuted

Within a single month, two courtrooms in New York have slapped insane fines on the former President totaling over $400 million. One is over a sexual assault charge that was so old the New York legislature had to alter the statute of limitations to be able to bring it up. The other is against his business enterprise, claiming it defrauded banks in the way it obtained bank loans, but managed somehow to get the State of New York to file as the aggrieved party. In both these cases, the demand for the money is being made immediately—no chance to delay the payment by appeal. So even if an appellate court does overturn or reduce the fines, the fact that they are being demanded at the exact time he needs money to run for reelection in the 2024 campaign cycle means the damage is already done. 

This is reminiscent of the classic movie trope where the corrupt cop catches someone (a foreigner or other disliked personage) and makes up a charge (perhaps by busting a tail light in a traffic stop and claiming a violation based on non-working equipment) and then demanding the out of proportion fine for it up front. As this is a movie, the victim is not willing or not prepared to just hand off large sums of cash in such a case, so the victim gets jailed and then tried by a corrupt prosecutor before a corrupt judge and the rest of the movie is about trying to restore justice to a place where it is obviously absent. 

We are seeing that, rather than people being upset over "orange man bad", they get upset over the New York prosecutors and judges who are enacting out these movie scripts writ large. And it's starting a movement where people who might have dismissed the former President out of hand are now looking at him as the one who has been just as screwed over by the system as they have, and are rallying to his support because in this case, that's how justice gets restored where it is obviously absent.

A Battle of Priorities 

The main argument of populism is, "What good is it for the government to provide for people's needs in other countries when our own people are neglected?" They see this as a fundamental dereliction duty on the government's part. And now, these YouTubers are seeing it in personal terms: If a man won't take care of his wife and kids but instead spends his money on another woman and her kids, his family has a right to be suspicious not only of his love for his family, but also of what these other people are doing for him. So when we are presented with a "Border Security" bill that spends more less than 15% of the money on things related to our border and puts the rest of the money into Ukraine and Gaza, we have the right to start asking the same sorts of questions. Where this leads is uncertain, but it is not what the Democrats were expecting.


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