Donald Trump's rebranding of American diversity is gaining traction

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

80% : Trump and his surrogates' overt racism provides a type of visceral thrill and excitement for his MAGA followers.
68% : Trump is a political entrepreneur.
63% : That's when Trump and Vance saw a political opportunity.
59% : In the summer of 2016, as Trump clinched the GOP presidential nomination, it was 39%; that dipped to 20% in 2019 before rising to 40% last spring amid the run-up to the 2024 Republican presidential primary.
50% : Trump and his MAGA brain trust have a plan, and they are sticking with it.
48% : At the Guardian, Sidney Blumenthal discusses new polling data from YouGov (conducted between September 11 and 12):Trump knows in his bones that his supporters will believe anything he says.
44% : It polled 24 points better than his lie that "public schools are providing students with sex-change operations" and 44 points better than his lie that "noise from wind turbines has been shown to cause cancer."
44% : In fairness, immigration is one place where Trump has a stated policy position: Deport people in the country illegally.
42% : So they say they're voting on policy ... which means the mechanisms by which Trump punches down.
40% : At the time of this writing, Harris and Trump are essentially tied in the polls.
39% : The result in Springfield was threats against community leaders and the migrants -- but Trump gets a pass on that, too.
39% : There is a huge market for Trump and the MAGAfied Republicans and the larger neofascist and "conservative" movement's hate politics.
33% : The most recent and very bold move in Trump and his campaign's white supremacist political campaign against Kamala Harris and the Democrats is the conspiratorial lie that Black Haitian immigrants are killing and eating white people's dogs and cats (and presumably other pets) in Springfield, Ohio.
33% : Trump only needs to win over enough voters -- specifically the angry, disaffected, and racially resentful white voters in the key battleground states -- to take back the White House.
32% : New polling research from CBS News/YouGov (conducted September 18-20) further demonstrates the effectiveness of Trump and his propagandists' lies about Springfield and their appeals to white supremacy, racism, nativism, ethnocentrism, and general anti-Black sentiment.
30% : A series of new public opinion polls suggest that Trump and his campaign's white supremacist and racist air raid gambit (as opposed to the more "subtle" racist and white supremacy of "modern racism" with its "dog whistles") may actually be working -- or at the very least may not be substantially hurting his chances of victory in November.
28% : The illogic of his demagogy gives Trump no pause.
25% : Trump knew before he uttered his lie in the debate about "eating pets" that it was untrue.
24% : There is also the hope that Trump's (and his surrogate mouthpiece and vice-presidential candidate JD Vance's) racist and white supremacist conspiracism will backfire, alienating more potential voters than it will bring to him.
24% : In that way, like other fake populist and charismatic leaders, Trump is a symbol, totem, and hero who they can live through vicariously.
18% : As Election Day rapidly approaches, the question is how many Americans want to eat the poisonous slice of racist American pie that Trump and his surrogates are serving?
17% : At the Washington Post, Philip Bump explains:That same poll also asked Americans why they thought Trump amplified false claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Ohio.
15% : Nearly 6 in 10 Republicans think the threats were probably unrelated to the claims Trump and Vance amplified.
12% : Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), didn't talk about Springfield, Ohio, until the right-wing conversational bubble started lighting up with baseless allegations about pets.

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