Trump implies Slavery/Segregation were better for blacks than the Obama Years

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I mean, he is not saying this to get African American votes. He is saying this to get the racist votes.

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He's playing to the white nationalist once again.

I don't think that is the reasoning. Trump's team has told him that his biggest problem is with college white women, especially those who think he is racially insensitive. But I don't see how talking like this helps, even though I am guessing in his mind this is the way to solve his suburban mom problem. This is his way of saying "see look, I care about black people"

Yep, he is trying to get the vote of people who, mistakenly, do not consider themselves racist.

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Come on, guys. Hyperbole =/= intentional implication

This. As stupid as his statement was, I don't think he really meant to imply blacks were better off under Jim Crow or slavery. I doubt he thought that deep into it. I doubt he thinks deeply much at all honestly but who knows.

I mean, sure, I don't think he was intentionally trying to say that slavery was better for AAs, but you have to admit that this is another case of him not thinking before he opened his mouth. Even a tiny bit of thought could have avoided such an idiotic statement.

I mean he said "Ever, ever, ever." That much emphasis has to mean something beyond a lack of thought.

Yes, it means Trump likes to emphasize things, believing it somehow makes it true. 

Exactly as Dr. Goebbels did.