A recent addition to the Power Line crew, Elizabeth Stauffer writes about an interesting reaction to the Trump mugshot in the African-American male community. Especially among rappers who are some its most eloquent spokesmen.
Most of the rapper comments are too salty to quote here, but the support for Trump comes through loud and clear. He has joined the downtrodden, picked on and persecuted by “the man.” He “lives large” like a super-pimp on steroids, and he flaunts it. More seriously, the economy during his term did more for the black community economically than any before or since, and at least one rapper mentions this.
Will they remember 15 months from now? Who knows? Too few are registered Republicans to make a lot of difference in the primary process, where Trump seems to be in little difficulty in any case.
