Hope this isn't too shocking for you, dear reader, but 60 percent of Americans don't buy Donald Trump's recent and shallow embrace of issues facing women and people of color. Despite declaring himself "the best" on women's issues and going to nearly all-white audiences to express his sincere concern for black Americans, something about it just doesn't seem authentic, according the latest Washington Post-ABC poll. James Downie writes:
When asked if they think Trump “is or is not biased against women and minorities,” 60 percent of Americans say he is — the same number as in the August Post-ABC poll and up four percent from the July poll.
The demographic breakdown on that question looks even worse for Trump. 66 percent of women think he is biased. So do 75 percent of Hispanics and 77 percent of African Americans; 59 percent of independents answer in the affirmative, including 69 percent of female independents. Even 37 percent of self-described conservatives see him as biased — a strikingly high number in such a polarized electorate.
Up 4 percent from July, eh? Somehow hiring Breitbart alt-right promoter Steve Bannon, who’s also had some skirmishes with women, hasn’t helped. Trump can't even fool more than one-third of his own people. Or perhaps, they simply like it, so why try to hide it? That must have been the idea behind Trump advisor Roger Stone's tweet portraying Trump as the leader of a band of "Deplorables" that included an alt-right hero: Pepe the Frog.
"Pepe the Frog is a huge favorite white supremacist meme," Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center told NBC News of the meme.
While Pepe the Frog may not be a household name, the meme is known to members of the alt-right on the internet.
"It's constantly used in those circles," Beirich said. "The white nationalists are gonna love this because they're gonna feel like 'yeah we're in there with Trump, there's Pepe the Frog.'"
Trump Jr. liked “The Deplorables” symbolism so much, he flaunted it on his Instagram account.
Can't imagine why all that "outreach" to the rest of America isn’t working.