Charles Blow: If Trump’s N-Word Tape is Real, ‘It Might Actually Increase His Support’
New York Times columnist Charles Blow says that even if Omarosa Manigault-Newman is right and a tape exists of Donald Trump saying racial slurs, it won’t do a thing to damage the president’s standing among his supporters.
Blow was on CNN on Wednesday for a discussion on how Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she couldn’t “guarantee” that there’s no tape of Trump using the N-word. When the conversation turned to polling data showing that most Americans believe Trump is a racist, Blow argued that a “strange standard” has become publicly accepted where the president’s countless scandals don’t matter and he almost never has to apologize for anything.
The columnist continued to say that Trump’s racism is the logical conclusion of deductive reasoning, given his track record on the matter.
“We would be insane if we kept questioning and saying this is a matter of opinion of whether he’s a racist or not. He is,” Blow said. “People have cooked that into the books. I think that if you found the tape of him using the N-word, it might actually increase his support among the people who support him.”
Blow concluded with a lament that Trump saying the N-word would simply fall into his base’s expectations and they won’t care since they’ve already chosen to stand by him after so many worse controversies.
“This does nothing to them, they believe whole-heartedly in this approach, and none of these insults to people who look like me hurt them because it is not them. There is not a betrayal of their believe in him, there is not a betrayal in what they want him to do, this is what they want him to do…This is what they accepted. This is what they want.”
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