It is part of the narrative. The strategy is becoming pretty plain to see. It is a continuation of the Southern Strategy a la Willie Horton. It is an effort to gin up feelings of victimization among poor and middle class whites - misplaced feelings of anger to be sure as they should be angry at the upper class for stealing their present and future. Instead, the noise machine is attempting to harness and divert this anger by driving it through the spin machine of racial victimization. It's an amazing thing to watch. I'm wondering if Independents will fall for it. I bet they will in Texas.