>>2584389>Why is the black electorate so moderateThink there's two things going on here. One is that it's kind of a statistical artifact of the fact that blacks overwhelmingly vote for the Democrats, so you have some number of those who are center-right (really) but they are Democrats because they perceive the Republicans as threatening to them because they're black. It's not so much that blacks are so conservative relative to whites in general since there's a big white bloc that is voting for the Republicans.
The other thing is that blacks are generally pretty pragmatic and these voters want to defeat the Republicans so they'll go with Newsom because they think he has a better shot at it. Maybe that is incorrect, or maybe not, and it's an interesting question why the black electorate is like this, or what in history shaped this approach. But it's sometihng like that. (As a subsection tying it into this CPUSA thing, I actually kind of suspect that one reason why the CPUSA is like that is because it's historically a bit blacker than a lot of Marxist groups, the co-chair is black, some of their most well-known people in history like Angela Davis are black.)