I sure wish the media would stop covering Trump's racists tweets. It just gives Trump more exposure

[Caliman73]

2. I don't think that is true for overt racism.

You can argue that exposing Trump is helpful to him in different areas. Also, Americans are pretty much raised in an environment saturated with racial bias so there is a kind of subconscious acceptance of subtle racism. However, we get pretty uncomfortable about overt racism.

You can say, "Well yeah there are more Black people on prison, and it is complicated but something is going on in the community...." and a lot of people will just kind of accept that statement. If you keep talking about "Rat infested, hell holes, where No human being wants to live", and that place has a decent population of White people, then people start questioning.

It appears that is happening now.

There are the people in Trump's base who fully endorse his racism, but they are not a large segment of the population. Overt racism ultimately hurts Trump.