Percent of people who believe Trump is a "racist" decreased after statements about Omar

New poll shows the “racist” charge in not simply policy, but ingrained in the party.

Tellingly, within this same poll, it is seen that this tactic is not having the intended effect. It is important to note, the poll was conducted on July 15-16, the days following Trump’s tweets and right in the midst of the media firestorm. Despite that emotionally-charged environment the number of people who believed Trump to be racist actually dropped in comparison to a previous poll with similar questioning.

In the poll 47% of respondents believed the President to be racist, which was down 3% from a similar poll held in January. Additionally, more believed the President is not racist (49%) and those believing the use of racism is being done for political gain rose by 6% from that earlier survey. These are the revealing metrics in this poll.

Understand, the respondents were asked about these issues during the Democrat and media effort to establish Trump’s words were deeply racist. Yet while they loudly trying to sell the nation on this notion the result was fewer people believing he is racist, and more people seeing this as a purely political effort to smear him. That is a detail very few in the media are going to be pointing out.

So this comes from the same poll that shows that a third of Democrats believe that anytime a white person criticizes a politician of color it's automatically racism. The problem is that once it gets to the point where "everything" is racism, then quite literally "nothing" is racism.

I have made the argument that whether or not Trump is a racist is already ingrained into nearly every single American, and nothing Trump does moving forward is going to move that needle.

• If you believe he is a racist, is that really going to change if he simply doesn't tweet or say something you don't like for the next year or so? 
• If you do not believe he is a racist at this point, is anything he states at this point in time going to change your mind?

What IS becoming apparent however, is that it's possible that while Trump himself may not change people's minds, that the reaction from his critics just might. The irony is that the more people criticize him as racist, demand that he is racist, declare that everything he does is racist, the more people tend to simply tune it out and see it as more politics. As this poll implies, it might actually make some people more irritated with the criticism than with the actions of the President.

I am still not 100% convinced that many people are going to change their minds about Trump. The dropping of three percent is more a rounding error, than something to take seriously. But what it does show, is that the number is not getting worse. At least not for Trump.

The major problem for the race baiters is that the excessive criticism will start to wear thin to the point where people will see Trump as "not as bad" as he is made out to be. While this may not be so much as to change people's minds completely, it may be enough to soften their impression about his so-called "racism" to the point where it becomes almost a wash in comparison to the negativity of his accusers. In fact, don't discount the possibility that more and more Americans will look at the "accusers" as being dishonest, biased, and bigoted against the President. Nothing worse than the classic complainer who holds no moral high ground.