Last year, at the White House’s Black History Month celebration, President Donald Trump took the lectern and basked in victory. He’d just won a second election with more Black support than any Republican presidential candidate in five decades, and 1 in 3 Black Americans approved of the job he was doing. He thanked the room and teased that his first administration never had a Black crowd as large. “I look at this turnout … ” he crowed, “This is just love in the room.”

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