From the outside looking in sometimes I wonder if it's the democrats that are the ones that "have a black friend" and use minorities as props, not the republicans...
No I don't, and even in my own context (I'm not American) I don't have much friends outside my own background - but I do know what it's like to see people perform performative "inclusion" and throw (insert group here) under the bus when said group doesn't do what they want them to do - in case it wasn't clear my comments were based on how quickly some people were quick to go "I hope those (minority voters that went trump) get a taste of what they voted for"
And my dad flipped to Trump for those very reasons.
The Trump team built a very strong minority outreach apparatus, and actually microtargeted based on ethnicity.
The Dems were not granular enough so their messaging didn't land.