Can you believe it . Rachel maddow on bravo. Never thought i would see the day. For all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. Ill see you at The End of tomorrow. Today started with bomb shell news. Last monday, Jd Vances Team contacted officials in Springfield Ohio to Fact Check claims on haitian immigrants eating pets. Springfield City Manager told vances people pointblank there was no verifyable evidence of immigrants eating pets. The claims were baseless, but still, Jd Vance repeated them online. And the next day, trump used one of the biggest platforms in the world, an american president ial debate, to push the claims again. Claims the campaign knew were lies. The new reporting from the Wall Street Journal should be devastating to the trump campaign. But the stunning thing is they probably wont care. Because trump and Vances Invocation of springfield was never about the truth to begin with. Springfield is less important to them as an
Springfield in 34 states in this country so springfield really could be just about anywhere active participation is a good pasz of citizenship dont you kids realize the habits you form at home is the one youre going to take with you into your Community Life you might also know springfield from the 1965 Sitcom Father knows best. Its any town usa, the conservative Eisenhower Ideal of an american town with white Picket Fence and white nuclear families with 2. 5 children this is the springfield that matters to Trump And J. D. Vance. A symbol that has nothing to do with the reality of springfield, the actual story of springfield, ohio, is that it sprang into existence because of funding from the federal government and the building of the nations first highway. It was first settled by irish immigrants in the 1800s, then german immigrants, then Black Americans heading north because of the great migration. The real story of springfield, ohio, is a story of immigration and integration. But dona
i would say that how that frustration in those communities gets manifest, how it gets rendered is different between a white community and i black community. that s unfortunate. talk to us about that. what is that? that s where a lot of the racism comes in. and i ll put it in a different way. being white allows a trump voter to overlook the ugliness of trump s language. does it mean that every trump voter is a racist? no, i think that s a overly simplistic way of looking at it without context. but it does allow them to overlook what i find some abhorrent language on his part and some abhorrent policies. and i would also say that democratic party has done a very good job over the last 30 years of signaling and proving to the african-american community that they are working for them.
with that. chris, what make of the analogy you just made? look, we re a segregated country. and that s not a good thing obviously. so much that happens in this country takes place in a racial context. and i would say that yes, i spend an equal amount of time in xwlak communities as a did in white communities. i started this project on addiction in black communities. ab-i would say how that frustration in those communities gets manifest, how it gets surrendered is different between a white community and i black community. that s unfortunate. talk to us about that. what is that? that s where a lot of the racism comes in. and i ll put it in a different way. being white allows a trump voter to overlook the ugliness of trump s language. does it mean that every trump voter is a racist?