He repeats conservative propaganda so that conservatives can quote him and pretend they aren’t racist because they have one black friend. For example there was

He repeats conservative propaganda so that conservatives can quote him and pretend they aren’t racist because they have one black friend. For example there was a recent twitter flap because he repeated an old invalidated conservative talking point about reproductive rights and tons of white clconservatives jumped on board saying “see! The black community agrees!” This is all a strategy to manufacture consent.