Very few Muslim Americans like Trump, there’s no love lost there and no one here needs to remind them of his antipathy towards Muslims.
I think the reason why so many Muslim Americans are upset is that they are seeing the fact that within the Democratic coalition, which is broad and diverse. Thats there’s a basic membership and a premium membership.
Basic tier members take what little they can get policy wise, get told to wait until 202x for real change, and are beaten with the cudgel that is Trump.
Premium members get taken care of, premium members’ concerns are addressed, Democratic Presidents are careful not to offend premium members in the first place and if they do, they make amends.
The funny thing is that some of the least reliable Democratic voters are well represented among the premium membership. Cops, affluent white suburbanites, major donors (or voting blocs that tend to donate a lot), defense contractors, and neocons who say mean things about Trump, they get the red carpet treatment.
It’s definitely a two tiered party and obviously Democratic politicians want to make every bloc think they actually have a premium membership. And I think that Muslim Americans thought that they had earned premium membership with so many of them in the swing State of Michigan and with so many gestures towards a genuine racial reckoning and broader representation coming from so many Democratic politicians since 2020. Joe Biden swiftly disabused them of that notion when he pledged unconditional support for Israel, opposed a cease fire, and said that Palestinian death tolls are inflated.
The fact that Trump would do even worse is not lost on anyone in that community. In fact being reminded of the fact that they have no where else to turn, is pretty demoralizing. The argument of “what about Trump” becomes downright galling when compared to how the Democratic Party goes out and makes positive arguments (and makes the policy concessions to back it up) for certain voting blocs.
The storm of fascism is very real and we are all caught up in it. Some have yachts, others have dinghies and after about a month of Israel-Palestine front of mind for most Americans, the President’s rhetorical and policy responses showed a key Democratic voting bloc that they are clinging to a piece of driftwood.
Rather than blame hypothetical non voters for ab election lose that hasn’t happened, maybe, just maybe make demands of elected politicians and get them to change the behavior that is currently alienating a bloc of voters that the Democratic Party (and with Trump being on the ballot) and America cannot afford to lose.