I meant the problems we are living in right now. The leftists didn't create COVID. But they have created the false narratives that have followed.
Leftists didn't kill Floyd, but they created the false narrative of police use of force and that there is a pandemic of blacks being unjustifiably killed by police. Then the attacks on white people in general and white fragility. And much more.
You say "false narratives" as if you proved something. You are being a little too partisan for me. That's like Trump saying Covid would be gone by April. Do you think you can make something true by saying it? Trump's statement about Covid being gone by April made him look stupid when April and May came along. Trump did not keep control over the narrative. That meant Democrats could laugh at him.
Trump also failed to make a statement that would have unified the nation when the Floyd video surfaced. He's the President. What he says matters. He could have calmed the nation. He didn't even try. He doesn't know how to unify people. If he had handled the Floyd situation better, I think he would have picked up more votes in the next election.
If blacks believed he was working to clean out the few bad cops on the police forces, some of them would have voted for him. He could have made a strong case for getting their votes. Look at the places with the worst cases -- they tend to be places where Democrats are in power. Not saying that most Democrats are racists -- but I am saying Democratic politicians have done a lousy job at removing racist cops from their police forces.
I think you're living in a bubble. Trump has lived in a bubble for a long time in New York City. He doesn't understand white farmers in Iowa or miners in Pennsylvania. He doesn't feel for them. Indeed Trump seems never to feel empathy for anyone -- that's a major problem for him.
Joe Biden has also lived in a bubble more than the average American. His life hasn't been as sheltered as Trump's, but he's still out of touch -- most politicians are. I heard a black woman on NPR (liberal radio!) saying she thought the same thing -- she said she didn't think Biden understood the problems of black people, but she was going to vote for him since at least he tried. She didn't think Trump even tried. I lived in Delaware for about a year in Dover. I worked there as the manager of a pizza store. I hired a lot of black people -- not because they were black but because they applied. They were grateful for the jobs, grateful for the opportunity. Most of them did a very good job too.
I learned a lot from talking to them too. I learned how "white Democrats" ran the state of Delaware. They wanted black people to vote for them and campaigned in a way to get black votes; but they didn't do that much to fix the problems blacks had in Delaware once they got elected. I know first-hand how white Democrats ran Delaware. I was originally from Pennsylvania, and I' back there now. Biden was born in Pennsylvania. I know how white Democrats do things here too. There is a problem.
Michelle Obama went to an Ivy League university. I read her dissertation on race relations. I also went to an Ivy League university. These are allegedly liberal schools -- but I think Michelle Obama was right about a lot of her complaints about race relations at Princeton. They are not as liberal as they might to think. Remember the black professor that had a problem with the police -- when Obama was President? He taught at another Ivy League school. He was in the middle of "liberal academia" -- and he knew that racism existed there. I think he and Obama mishandled that situation -- but at least they acknowledged the fact that racism existed in Democratic states.
Democrats often want to present a unified front -- so they don't want to talk that much about racism in places they run. Black Democrats mostly go along with this since they believe the white Democrats are at least trying to work on it while Republicans wouldn't.
Trump's problem with race is that he got elected largely by whites and he's afraid of alienating them. He thinks his re-election depends on appealing to white racists. You see this time and again when he makes statements that aren't openly racist but which are "dog-whistles" that appeal to racists. White racists hear him say "law and order" and that means white cops beating down black criminals. He can say he didn't mean anything racist by saying "law and order" but it still works for him since white racists take it that way. But then black people can take it that way too and say, "Wow, can you believe this guy? I'll never vote for him." Making vague comments can alienate voters.
He got even more far out when talking about making suburbia safer. That's another vague statement people can argue about. White people can look at it and say, "I'll vote for him -- he wants to keep black people out of where I live." Black people can look at it and say, "What a racist. I'll never vote for him." So which way should we interpret his statement? I read it as an appeal to racists -- I read it that way since he's campaigning for office and wants more white people to vote for him. He's losing the suburban vote in polls and knows it. It doesn't mean he himself is necessarily a racist (maybe he is, maybe he isn't) -- it means he's trying to get racists to vote for him. At any rate, vague comments like that enable Democrats to say, "See? He is a racist!" Trump sets himself up for attacks from Democrats by making vague comments.
His attempt to change voting by mail is also seen as racist by many. Is it? I think it is. It is easily seen as an attempt to suppress the votes of Democrats -- Trump admitted that himself when he said giving the post office money would help the Democrats so he didn't want to do it. Everything is about him -- whether he'll be elected again. He isn't showing empathy for anyone else. If changing who the post office operates would get him elected, he's all for changing it. If that means fewer Democrats vote, it's fine with him -- it's what he wants. Now we can see that the Democrats not voting if they couldn't vote by mail would mostly be blacks and Latinos, don't we? Thus Trump helps create the picture of himself being a racist. He does and says things that makes it easy for Democrats to point out his appeals to the white racists in the Republican Party. What he may not understand is that many Republicans are not racists even if they are white. He's losing some of them too. Thus we see prominent Republicans coming out and endorsing Biden.