Not sure where you got that part from the article. I stumbled across that article earlier today. The idea I got from it was the progressive left doesn't understand America in general which as a majority is fed up with political correctness. And the progressive left is rather homogenously (sic?) rich, highly educated and white.

According to the report, 25 percent of Americans are traditional or devoted conservatives, and their views are far outside the American mainstream. Some 8 percent of Americans are progressive activists, and their views are even less typical. By contrast, the two-thirds of Americans who don’t belong to either extreme constitute an “exhausted majority.” Their members “share a sense of fatigue with our polarized national conversation, a willingness to be flexible in their political viewpoints, and a lack of voice in the national conversation.”

Most members of the “exhausted majority,” and then some, dislike political correctness. Among the general population, a full 80 percent believe that “political correctness is a problem in our country.” Even young people are uncomfortable with it, including 74 percent ages 24 to 29, and 79 percent under age 24. On this particular issue, the woke are in a clear minority across all ages


So what does this group look like? Compared with the rest of the (nationally representative) polling sample, progressive activists are much more likely to be rich, highly educated—and white. They are nearly twice as likely as the average to make more than $100,000 a year. They are nearly three times as likely to have a postgraduate degree. And while 12 percent of the overall sample in the study is African American, only 3 percent of progressive activists are. With the exception of the small tribe of devoted conservatives, progressive activists are the most racially homogeneous group in the country.

I think the article says a lot about why Trump won.

And you can keep on believing Fox News.

Of course, and Fox News probably couldn't get enough of it. It's just tribalism.
However, it's probably more critical for CNN to destroy Kanye than it is for Fox News to build him up.

Consider:

1.) African Americans are a key Dem constituent group.
2.) Typically, the MSM uses fear mongering* to get African Americans to the polls.
3.) It's harder to fear monger well when there are photo ops of Trump hugging Kayne.
4.) It's hard to avoid covering the Kayne visit because of Kayne's huge celebrity and bombastic style.
5.) Savaging Kayne as a race traitor is a strategy to contain the visual and political damage.
6.) "Race traitor" is certainly better than "Progressive traitor" for reputation damage in the black community.

*Pretty much the "goto" motivating factor for both sides.

I got plenty out of the article, but some of the people in this thread aren't accepting a lot of the things you stated.


As I said, feel free to believe in whatever CNN tells you. And I don't have time for Fox, I'm in the Lavender room.

Fox News had this strategy of preaching to choir with questionable statements of reporting (e.g. "Some say.....you had sexual relationship with...") which is the same as "anonymous sources" from Washington Post and NY Times. You just don't know who said it - it could have been Kanye's dead mother. CNN is doing the same preaching to their choir and reporting what they think versus what they know. It's just embarrassing - Don Lemon embarrassing.

I think they’re uncomfortable with a narcissistic mentally ill nutjob being granted an audience with the leader of the free world for basically nothing more than the chance for both of them to stroke each others egos, during a time when the President’s attention might better be fixed on the natural disaster rolling over part of his country. They might be uncomfortable with the optic of two famous black men with somewhat sordid histories but who are both fans of Pres Trump being trotted out in a somewhat transparent attempt to make it appear as though the administration is tuned into the concerns of black America.

I don’t think anyone is uncomfortable with “a black man meeting the President in the Oval Office” what with the previous President being,...you know,...black.

"You won't see a lot of racial diversity or higher education types at most of the town hall Trump rallies. "
Wow ! You are a special kind of stupid.

you are better than this.

Oh, just shut up and rap.

That only applies to left leaning celebs.