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By YAMICHE ALCINDOR AUG. 22, 2017
WASHINGTON Gregory Cheadle, the man whom Donald J. Trump famously called my African-American at a California campaign rally, watched this month as now-President Trump praised the very fine people on both sides of the deadly melee in Charlottesville, Va., and he decided that possessive word my was in grave danger. His backing for the president is on life support, he said.
Shermichael Singletons support has flatlined. Mr. Singleton was fired from his job as a senior adviser for the Department of Housing and Urban Development in February after previous writings critical of Mr. Trump came to light, yet he remained supportive. No more.
As the president headed to Phoenix on Tuesday to preach national unity at a campaign-style rally, even ardent supporters in the African-American community said the ties that once connected them to Mr. Trump had frayed badly.
Its difficult to continue to have hope for President Trump, Mr. Singleton said. Its difficult to focus on complex policy issues when you have a country that is falling apart. Its difficult to focus on health care. Its difficult to focus on the economy. Its difficult to focus on infrastructure when you have people who dislike other people because of their ethnicity.
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oberliner
(58,724 posts)He must be rejected by all reasonable Republicans.
haveahart
(905 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)With a moral dilemma.
Did it really take Charlottesville to open their eyes?
He no longer is an asset to their greedy aspirations is more like it.
ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)When wasn't it a moral dilemma?
brush
(53,467 posts)There is nothing to even consider.
The remaining 5% take the opportunity to be "different" and join the racist, white peoples' party to see what's in it for them.