One of the most common knocks against Donald Trump is actually one of the things I like most about him. Whereas some find fault in Trump for not being sufficiently indoctrinated to the conventional wisdom of politics, I see a refreshing refusal to be a slave to it. A few things are more established as conventional wisdom than the idea that the black vote will always go overwhelmingly Democratic, because . . . well, because it does!
In an appearance on Friday in Dimondale, Michigan (just outside Lansing), Trump aimed comments directly at black voters and trained his sights squarely on that conventional wisdom. Conservatives have long believed the black community does itself a disservice by slavishly (yeah, I used the word) giving its votes to Democrats, who consequently take them for granted and do nothing to make their lot in life any better.