Will Trump’s Secret Voters Be Strong Enough To Pull Him Through?

It’s not just Trump who seems to think so…

We’ve been skeptical of a growing number of articles and commentators recently asserting Trump is delusional to think the people who would never publicly admit they were voting for Trump 4 years ago but did, will be back doing the same thing this time around. They argue American society has genuinely changed too much in the past 4 years — especially this year — for that to happen again.

Look, if they’re right, great. Because that means Trump’s damaging himself while he thinks he’s doing exactly the opposite, every time he whines about how this country is most unfair to white people, or says something borderline or overtly racist, or repeatedly Tweets “LAW AND ORDER!”, because he thinks he’s touching a vast, hidden source of voter support. And that would be people who don’t want to be perceived as racist and don’t perceive themselves as racist, but who — for various reasons — would strongly prefer to see white people making most decisions and hanging on to most power in this country for as long as possible. Which is also why Trump’s recently started accusing presumed opponent Joe Biden of wanting to “abolish suburbs” among other things. And you can be certain we’re going to hear a lot more of that.

At the same time, there’s a lot of undefined space in which those type of voters may continue to exist even in the absence of hard evidence. And there’s also a growing amount of evidence…