https://musaalgharbi.com/2020/11/02/understanding-trump-success-minority-voters/
That is, on balance, these “racist” messages seemed to resonate more strongly with minorities than whites! Across racial groups, most did not find the messages to be racist or offensive — despite researchers viewing these examples as clear-cut cases of racial dog whistles.
As I pointed out back in 2016, another key factor for understanding minority support for Trump may be that minorities often hold antipathy toward other minority groups. As a consequence, even if we understand many of Trump’s policies and rhetoric to indeed be racist, minorities could support Trump precisely because his rhetoric or policies seem to target other minorities, whom they also dislike.
Many in academia and the media have a hard time with this. Newsrooms are disproportionately white and liberal spaces — much like institutions of higher learning. However, white liberals tend to hold peculiar views on racial issues — be it as compared to other whites or to people of color.
For instance, they often seem to think in intersectional terms: campaigns to assist Muslims, poor people, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, LGBTQ Americans, women, etc. are viewed as fundamentally interconnected — part of the same overarching struggle for justice and equality. Within this worldview, it would be natural to assume that if Trump says something negative about one minority group, it will likely alienate other minorities as well. Indeed, academics generally avoid examining anti-minority sentiment among members of minority groups — focused nearly exclusively on bigotry among whites.
However, as a matter of fact, people from historically marginalized or disadvantaged groups often hold very negative opinions of people from other minority populations — and do not seem to approach social issues in intersectional terms.