Americans being Non-White...why is it virtually impossible to find a person of color in the Jan. 6th mob?...hardly irrelevant or a 'non-sequitur'...it is emblematic of WHO the GOP's core are...and why former GOP Strategist, Stuart Stevens, wrote his book, "It Was All A Lie."
...from that book...pg 11...
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"It hadn't always been this way. Before 1964, Republican presidential candidates could expect to get between 30 and 40 percent of the African American vote. Dwight Eisenhower got 39 percent in 1956. Four years later, Richard Nixon campaigned with Jackie Robinson and won 32 percent of black voters. In 1964, Barry Goldwater opposed the Civil Rights Act, and his black support plummeted to 7 percent. Since 1964, no Republican presidential candidate has broken 17 percent with African American voters, and by 2016 only 3 percent considered themselves Republican."
Politics is in many ways a perfect marketplace. Candidates and parties learn very quickly what works and what doesn't and focus time, energy, and money on the share of the marketplace that pollsters tel them is accessible to persuasion or motivation. Since 1964, Republicans have earned that they will have little success in appealing to black voters. It's not that most campaigns didn't make at least some effort, but it was always done with the knowledge that breaking 10 percent would be a significant achievement.
What happens if yhou spend decades focused on appealing to white voters and treating nonwhite voters with, at best, benign neglect? You get good at doing what it takes to appeal to white voters. That is the truth that led to what is famously called "the southern strategy." That is the path that leads you to becoming what the Republican Party now proudly embraces: a white grievance party.---------------
Don't say you haven't been informed ;-)