Last week, Presidential candidate and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg made a campaign stop in South Carolina and told attendees, “Anyone who supported this President is, at best, looking the other way on racism.”

This is a dangerous generalization that many Americans will resent. In 2016, Hillary Clinton famously denounced Trump supporters as being a “basket of deplorables,” and we saw how that backfired.

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Buttigieg was polling at zero percent among black voters in South Carolina in November, maybe he thinks the race card will help him. Some have pointed out that Buttigieg was projecting or pandering, or saying anything to attract some black supporters.

In the October debates, Buttigieg claimed he was the candidate “who can turn the page and unify a dangerously polarized country,” even though he believes 63 million Americans who voted for Trump are racists.