Mr Trump spent the most part of the 2016 electoral year, demonizing minority groups and calling them names. Mexicans, African Americans, Latinos, Muslims, and other groups in between, were deemed to be either undesirable or flawed human beings in one respect or another, as defined by him - fully dispensable in the American political equation. Trump's campaign became a campaign of insults and hostility, a fact that endeared him to the KKK and other hate groups - anxious to have "their" man in the White House at all cost. Mr. Trump apparently disavowed some of them..
But some onlookers and critics took a hard look at his campaign strategy and wrote off the presidential hopeful as an inevitable loser. In a democratic election, every voter counts. How can he win the election by demonizing a large chunk of the electorate, many of whom saw his competitor Hillary Clinton, as relatively more inclusive and friendly towards the so-called "minority" groups - who in reality would become the majority, by the middle of the century.
But in one of the most glaring reversals in the history of American electoral campaigns, Trump pulled a rabbit out of his hat and pivoted. Speaking with a rather contrived and hypocritical tone of appeal, the candidate now wanted "Afreecan Amerekans" to come over to his side. "What do you have to lose," he shouted in desperation, unable to fake his electoral anxiety and exasperation. All of a sudden, the stone the builder refused was now to be retrieved from the dump site. This would also appeal to some suburban white women who felt that his race baiting needed a lighter touch. Mr. Trump had finally learnt to count.
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