The Black Boom
The Black Boom
A conversation with Wall Street Journal columnist and author Jason L. Riley
Appears in this episode
In today’s media environment, there’s often a lot of unanswered questions. Because narratives are so powerful — and because the press is so polarized — there’s often pieces of information that don’t quite fit with any given story.
One fact I’ve been wondering about for some time: How Donald Trump managed to increase his support among Black voters in the 2020 election. Why haven’t we heard more discussion and debate around this?
What happened to increase Black voter support for Trump?
My guest on the podcast today has one possible answer.
Jason L. Riley is a conservative commentator in the U.S. He’s a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His latest book is The Black Boom.
Jason L. Riley joins me to make the case that the lives of working-class Black people actually improved under Trump’s economic policies — that’s today on Lean Out.
The Black Boom
Tara, THIS is what I pay you for. Balanced content. While my politics are at odds with parts of both yours and Riley's, hearing the arguments sure beats depending on the Globe, the CBC or the National Post.
Tara, this is a fascinating topic that I've thought about over the past year and one that merits discussion. Considering Trump's often self-inflicted blunders, coupled with a coordinated, sustained campaign to damage his presidency and remove him from office by various institutions including most of the media outlets in the country, this statistic is even more remarkable. My nagging thought has always been: supposing Covid had not happened, or the FBI had remained impartial, or the Special Counsel investigation, (lasting years) based on what is now accepted as fabricated evidence paid for by the opposition, had not been allowed to proceed, or Trump had not been branded as a racist by leading commentators in the media and leading members of the legislative branch......if all of that hadn't happened....how many MORE black voters would have endorsed this polarizing President, who up until COVID 19, was well on his way to a second term?