Trump’s Bizarre Rant About Kamala’s Blackness Exposes MAGA’s Weakness
Donald Trump’s public statements about Kamala Harris are getting weirder. After Harris had a huge showing at a Georgia rally, he erupted, claiming that “Crazy Kamala Harris” had relied on a concert to draw the crowd. Then, speaking to Black journalists, Trump melted down spectacularly while suggesting that Harris had long disavowed her Black identity. The connecting thread here: The Trump-MAGA worldview doesn’t allow for any real grasp of how Harris is viewed by the American mainstream. We talked to Professor Nicholas Grossman, author of a new piece for The Bulwark about the MAGA right, who explains how these eruptions show that MAGA assumes it has a broad-based appeal that it just doesn’t really have. Listen to this episode here.
Donald Trump’s public statements about Kamala Harris are getting weirder. After Harris had a huge showing at a Georgia rally, he erupted, claiming that “Crazy Kamala Harris” had relied on a concert to draw the crowd. Then, speaking to Black journalists, Trump melted down spectacularly while suggesting that Harris had long disavowed her Black identity. The connecting thread here: The Trump-MAGA worldview doesn’t allow for any real grasp of how Harris is viewed by the American mainstream. We talked to Professor Nicholas Grossman, author of a new piece for The Bulwark about the MAGA right, who explains how these eruptions show that MAGA assumes it has a broad-based appeal that it just doesn’t really have. Listen to this episode here.
