Black Conservatism in the Trumpist Agenda

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The article is devoted to studying the impact of the Republican Party under the influence of Donald Trump on Black conservatism in the United States. Analyzing the process of formation of this ideological movement in the African-American community, the article notes its fundamental postulates. The article considers the main elements of the modern policy of the Republicans under the leadership of Trump in relation to the African-American community. The Republican Party focuses not just on addressing a number of urgent problems supported by the majority of African-Americans, but also promotes a number of measures aimed exclusively at increasing support among the conservative part of the Black population. Special attention is given to Trump's cooperation with opinion leaders in the African-American community, capable of increasing the popularity of the Republican conservative agenda among this category of the US population. Finally, the article analyzes the continued growth of support for Trump among African-Americans, especially among Black men, which corresponds to the plans of the Republicans to create a multiracial conservative coalition.

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D. N Vorobyev

Georgy Arbatov Institute for the U.S. and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN)

Email: worobjowdmitrij@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3585-620X
Candidate of Sciences (History), Senior Research Fellow, Department of Internal Political Studies Moscow, Russian Federation

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