Chances are if CNN’s Fareed Zakaria wasn’t able to falsely accuse conservatives and Republicans as racists he would have nothing to say. His latest recrimination occurred Monday as he appeared on “New Day.” Having nothing real to add to the conversation, he belched out what passes at the network for “analysis” of the 2016 election. According to Zakaria those racist older white people ganged up and staged a “class rebellion” to elect Donald Trump because of Obama’s race.
Of course, if the CNN blockhead bothered to compare his own networks exit polls for 2012 and 2016 he would have realized that Trump did slightly better among African-Americans and Hispanics than Romney four years prior. Is Zakaria implying that those older white men were African-Americans in disguise?
Turnout among African-Americans was down from 2012. Maybe Zakaria meant that it was those older white men who forced Hillary to deliver a message that didn’t appeal to