**JULY 3, 2020**

Kuttner on TAP

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Not if Trump has anything to do with it.

Trump's support in the polls has been collapsing, especially in the
suburbs. So Trump has resorted to one of the oldest racist tricks in the
book: Blacks are moving in, and it's the Democrats' fault!

In a recent tweet, he ranted:

"At the request of many great Americans who live in the Suburbs, and
others, I am studying the AFFH housing regulation that is having a
devastating impact on these once thriving Suburban areas,"Trump tweeted
Tuesday
night. "Corrupt Joe Biden wants to make them MUCH WORSE. Not fair to
homeowners, I may END!"

The once thriving suburban areas, presumably, are on the skids because
you know who have moved in.

There are two problems with this. Trump's HUD Secretary, Ben Carson,
has already gutted the Obama fair-housing regulations. And the pace of
integration

of the suburbs remains glacial. Most lily-white suburbs are still all
too lily white.

Indeed, many once integrated neighborhoods are becoming whiter due to
rising housing costs and gentrification. So Trump's pitch will fall
flat.

Trump's pathetic appeal to crude racism in suburbia is a mark both of
his tin ear at this moment of broadening commitment to racial
justice-and his utter desperation.

~ ROBERT KUTTNER

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Robert Kuttner's latest book is
The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy
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