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Home Front: Politix
Lamont Hill: Just Because Poor Cities Are Run by Democrats, Doesn't Mean Democrats Are to Blame
2016-08-19
[News Busters] On Wednesday's CNN New Day, Chris Cuomo brought on CNN commentator, author and host of BET News Marc Lamont Hill and former Secret Service agent and current candidate for congress in Florida Dan Bongino, to discuss Trump polling poorly with African-Americans. While Bongino argued that democrat run cities have failed black communities, Lamont Hill claimed that poverty and Democrat machines are connected, but that "doesn't mean" being a Democrat makes you poor.

After Cuomo brought up a new ABC News/WSJ poll that predicted only one percent of blacks would vote for Trump, he asked Bongino why Trump was unable to make the case to blacks that their Democrat-run communities would only keep them in poverty. Bongino responded:

DAN BONGINO: Yeah, you know, Chris, this is one of the great mysteries of my life. If I was granted omnipotence by the Lord tomorrow to change one thing, it would be to be able to walk into the black community and largely in inner cities and say, please, look at what's happening here. I mean, these communities have been ruled monopolistically by far left big government liberals for decades. In some cases since the '20s and '30s. These communities have been driven into the ground. I mean, you don't have to be a scientist to look at the evidence, the correlational evidence right in front of you. Liberalism correlates with poverty and high crime every single place it's been tried. Yet, you have some members of the black community which support the democratic party, which continues to bankrupt them. I wish I could change it. I wish the Trump campaign could as well.

Marc Lamont Hill took offense to that, wincing then claiming there was "[N]othing far left about Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia," at which Bongino, flabbergasted, asked, "What?"
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  Back in Mike Royko's day Chicago was Democratic, but he called it conservative. Today...
Posted by: james   2016-08-19 22:17  

#6  By their normal reasoning, these Lefty mayors should be congratulating themselves. Without their heroic and enlightened efforts think how much worse off these cities would be.
Posted by: Iblis   2016-08-19 20:43  

#5  #4 I'd be curious to hear what Lamont thinks the Far Left is.

He thinks Pol Pot was a genteel liberal and Frantz Fanon a sell-out.
Posted by: charger   2016-08-19 15:01  

#4  I'd be curious to hear what Lamont thinks the Far Left is.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-08-19 14:36  

#3  If it walks like a duck . . .
Posted by: gorb   2016-08-19 11:10  

#2  L-H is a smarmy lib racialist. He needs an asskicking in "the hood" by those he pretends to represent
Posted by: Frank G   2016-08-19 10:52  

#1  I ask you, Who ya goona believe, Lamont Hill or Dan Bongino.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-08-19 08:03  

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