The Thirty-Six Percent

36%

By Lucius Gantt

If you've had a chance to view any newscast or report, you've probably noticed that at least a third of qualified voters in the nited States approves of everything President Donald Trump has done in his second term.

More than a few people have asked me, "Who are these people?" Well, the 36% of Americans who approve whatever the President says and does are your neighbors, you coworkers, your classmates, your team members, your congregation members, your law enforcers, and others.

Yes, it's surprising, but not to me. Some Trump lovers and supporters are registered in the same political party you belong to. I call the MAGA Democrats! No disrespect to traditional "Democrats" but it is no secret that some Democrats will never vote to elect a Black woman or Black man for any elected office.

Think about it. Let me try to explain Trump-love and support another way.

Donald Trump loved his father, and his daddy loved him. Daddy Trump was a long-time supporter of the Ku Klux Klan in New York. The Trumps discriminated against Black New Yorkers who sought to rent apartments owned by the Trumps in the New York area.

America's white nationalists, white supremacists, Christian nationalists, Neo-Nazis, Storm Troopers, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, seditionists, insurrectionists, and other haters love Donald Trump's

efforts to deport Hispanics who abide by the law along with a very small amount of law breakers and criminals.

Trump and his loving followers hate DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion), CRT, women's right to choose, the Affordable Care Act (passed during Obama's presidency), and fair and legal immigration.

Aparthied-loving white S drug traffickers.outh Africans are welcome in Trump's America while innocent small boat Hispanic fishermen are murdered on the high seas and labeled (without proof) as high-level drug traffickers. America once was before

No doubt, Trump and his most ardent supporters wno feel threatened by an imaginary replacement concerns. America appears to be on the road to a majority Hispanic country as America once was before land was purchased, taken or stolen from Mexico.

Yes, you knew who the "36%" of Trump supporters are. Perhaps you didn't recognize them when they took their sheets off and curtailed their lynchings and cross burnings!