Glaude Jr.: ‘Ironic To Me That Black Voters Will Be the Firewall To Protect the Moderate Conservative Wing of the Dem Party’

‘Black voters are more moderate and conservative than most people think’

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GLAUDE JR.: “You know, Joe, I find it — I was stunned. It’s ironic to me that black voters will be the firewall to protect the moderate conservative wing of the Democratic Party. There are three things that really come to mind to me. One, as I said earlier, black voters are more moderate and conservative than most people think. Two, I think we still have to kind of keep track of Barack Obama’s effect, maybe even distorting effect on the black electorate. And, three, we need to kind of think about this question of safety. This buying time, as James Baldwin would say, that it’s a cold, calculated risk when we vote to buy ourselves some time. And there’s a sense in which a lot of black folk, there are some who support Joe Biden but there are a lot of black folk who don’t trust white America to vote for a progressive. So in some ways the idea of getting Trump out of office requires a kind of safe bet that this person will be — this person will beat Trump. But then there’s this thing. Back to the first part very quickly. As African-American voters, some African-American voters, I should say, consolidate around Joe Biden, we need to ask ourselves the question: Will this be the Democratic Party that doubled down on triangulation? Will this be the Democratic Party that assumed, as we bank away from the primary and go into the general, will they take advantage of, you know, African-American — take for granted African-American voters and move in a different direction and not pay attention?”

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