by Mark Tapson
Democrats can’t handle the truth.
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A Wall Street Journal poll in April found that approximately 30% of black men were either considering or planning to vote for Donald Trump in November, an eyebrow-raising jump from the 19% of the black male vote he garnered in the 2020 presidential election (up from 12% in 2016). The WSJ poll also reflected a rise in support for Trump among black women: 12% said they were considering or planning to vote for Trump in 2024, quadrupling the percentage who voted for him in 2016.
This is disconcerting news for Democrats, who have long smugly felt that they held an unbreakable lock on the black vote. But Biden is beginning to hemorrhage support among the minorities whose interests the Democrats falsely claim to champion. And he is especially losing the vote of minority males. What could account for that?
There is a variety of reasons, none of which the left is willing to accept. One is that independent-minded blacks who aren’t captured by the false promises of woke victimhood resent the Democrat Party taking their loyalty for granted. Remember Biden’s assertion that if you don’t vote for him, “you ain’t black”? Blacks remember it, and it rubbed them the wrong way. They see past the media propaganda and find more evidence that Biden is racist than Trump.
They also recognize that blacks were thriving under the Trump administration like never before, even when the supposedly post-racial President Barack Obama was in office for two terms. Under Biden, all they get is blather about reparations for slavery, which again, appeals only to blacks that embrace the victimhood narrative of identity politics pushed by Biden and the Democrats – witness his recent commencement speech at the historically black Morehouse College, in which he told graduates this racist country wants to keep them down. Black men see instead that Trump offers them opportunity and access. Rapper Money Man said recently, “I would go Trump [if he ran again]. This my thing — I don’t think the Democrats done did s**t for us, man. I don’t see n****s getting rich out this b***h, man.”
Speaking of rappers, some black men have even more respect for Trump now that he has been deemed a “convicted felon.” Trump himself suggested back in February that his indictments made him more appealing to some blacks because they too have felt targeted by an unjust legal system, a claim which the media had a field day using to tar him as racist. But he wasn’t wrong about that. Rapper Kodak Black said on social media, “They are trying to get Trump out the way cause Trump a stand-up n***a.” He’s “a soldier,” the rapper added. “Y’all get off Trump, man.” Bandman Kevo, who sports a tattoo of Trump’s mug shot, explained part of his support: “I mean I feel like the Democrats is more like for people who need help. We will give you this you can get more food stamps or more this or more that, you know?”
Democrats are willfully blind to any and all of these factors; they have to be, because confronting them would be to admit the failure of progressive policies and worldview. So singer and Democrat activist John Legend, who is black, offered up a couple of more palatable excuses. Speaking on the Pod Save America podcast, Legend first blamed widespread ignorance about what a great job the Biden administration is doing: “I hear a lot of misinformation and disinformation about the economy under Trump and what’s happened since,” he claimed. “To be clear, the economy is doing quite well.”
Yes, let’s do be clear: Legend has no clue about the economy. He is married to profanity-spewing fellow activist and former model Chrissy Teigen (Trump referred to her as “filthy-mouthed” and she responded by calling him “a pussy ass bitch”). They have a net worth of $100 million. Among their homes are a $5.1 million West Hollywood place, two apartments in NYC, and a $17.5 million mansion in Beverly Hills. For Legend, the economy is irrelevant. He doesn’t know how much his own groceries cost or care how much gas costs for his fleet of cars which include a Tesla Model S ($94,990), Cadillac Escalade ($76,295), Lexus LS ($76,000), Porsche Taycan ($82,700), and Range Rover Discovery ($53,325), among others.
Legend’s untroubled assurance that “the economy is doing quite well” is small comfort to non-celebrity, single-car Americans out there dealing with Biden’s skyrocketing inflation and insane prices at the gas pump. Legend’s privileged obliviousness reflects the reality that left-wing aristocrats like himself or Gavin Newsom or Nancy Pelosi are insulated from the devastating consequences of the policies their party imposes on the little people.
As for “misinformation and disinformation about the economy,” who exactly does John Legend think is spreading it? The mainstream media? The same state media that that sees its mission as running interference for the Biden administration? Nearly every single cultural & news outlet from NPR to ESPN to CNN to Rolling Stone to the Daily Beast is openly left-wing. Does he think they’re spreading economic misinfo and disinfo that favors Trump? Americans know that the economy is a disaster not because they’re being fed lies but because they’re living it. Legend wants to believe that bad news about the economy is false because it doesn’t support the narrative he wants his fans to buy into.
When the podcast conversation got around to the issue of the black male vote, Legend offered up another excuse as to why Trump is drawing an alarming percentage of their support: Trump’s toxic masculinity. Legend said, “I think Trump performs a form of masculinity that I think is attractive to some people. And so, it’s an issue that the campaign is going to have to deal with.”
What he’s getting at is that Trump exudes the sort of masculine stereotype that triggers the gender-confused left. Legend has long been on “a mission to challenge harmful gender roles,” as HuffPost put it. Refinery29, a website aimed at a young female following, rather hilariously described Legend as “a pretty good spokesperson for feminist men.” He gives talks at high schools promoting the only version of masculinity that the Left is comfortable with – namely, the kind that is indistinguishable from femininity.
″[Men] are afraid of talking about their fears and insecurities,” he has said. “They’re afraid of expressing emotion beyond anger, dominance, or power, and they’re afraid of getting in touch with their feminine side.”
Legend, like the left in general, believes that traditional masculinity, which emphasizes stoic strength, competitiveness, and a sense of adventure, is a socially-constructed mask that boys and young men have imposed on them, stifling their true nature – which is feminine. (Girls and young women, meanwhile, are encouraged by the left to emulate the most toxic male stereotype: hyper-ambitious, promiscuous, foul-mouthed, and aggressively obnoxious.) Notice how Legend, who was People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive in 2019, says that Trump “performs” a form of masculinity; the left believes that Trump’s alpha male style is performative. Black males should be offended that Legend believes they’re so easily suckered by what he perceives to be a false machismo.
“All men should be feminists,” Legend reportedly said in 2013. “If men care about women’s rights the world will be a better place.” Legend still apparently believes that feminism is about defending women’s rights; it’s certainly not now, if it ever was – it’s about subverting Western civilization by eradicating the very categories of male and female (hence the left’s obsession with gender ideology and transgenderism). And if Legend cared about women’s rights, he would defend America and the West as the only civilization in the world which respects women’s rights, and he would lambast true rape cultures like the ones under sharia law.
But I digress. The point is that Legend is just another out-of-touch Hollywood liberal who can’t – or won’t – understand why blacks are packing up and leaving the plantation for greener pastures in MAGA territory. They’re voting against their own interests!, Democrat leaders wail resentfully, not grasping that their party has never done anything in the best interests of black people. But as rappers Sheff G and Sleepy Hallow told the crowd at a Trump rally in the Bronx last month, the Democrats are “always gon’ whisper your accomplishments and shout your failures. Trump gon’ shout the wins for all of us.”
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Mark Tapson is the Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, focusing
on popular culture. He is also the host of an original podcast on
Frontpage, “The Right Take With Mark Tapson”. Follow him on Substack.
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