According to recent polls, former President Donald Trump is poised to capture the largest percentage of black voters of any Republican candidate since Richard Nixon got 32 percent in 1960. If President Trump openly advocates for policies that incentivize two-parent families and a reversal of the trend of fatherless homes, he can capture an even larger percentage of the black vote and ensure a significant number of black Americans remain in the Republican Party long after he leaves office.
Since LBJ’s social welfare programs of the 1960s, the Democrats have presided over the catastrophic decline of black families, from around 80 percent two-parent families to nearly 80 percent fatherless homes — and they failed to launch a single nationwide initiative to reverse the decline. A President Trump pro-family agenda would put the Democrats on the defensive on an issue that is nationally the biggest elephant in the room — the fatherless home crisis among black Americans.
If President Trump and the Republican Party made two-parent family policy part of Make America Strong Again and followed it with real and substantive policy changes (not tweaking welfare policies around the edges), it would create a stark contrast between the two political parties.
A pro-family agenda would force Democrats to defend and explain not only the policies that destroyed the black family but also the generations of damaging social ills that resulted from them. For example, a 2011 study by Cassandra Dorius at the University of Michigan revealed that 59 percent of African
