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History time.
Back in the day, runaway slave Frederick Douglas backed Abe Lincoln for President over a candidate who was for total abolition of slavery. Lincoln was open to abolition, and Douglas decided that it was better to have the ear of a sitting President over backing someone who had no chance of winning.
Bayard Ruskin was MLK's right hand man. Ruskin was invaluable in the Civil Rights battle. Ruskin was gay, and decided that it would be counter-productive to push of LGBT rights in the 1960s.
During WW2, Communists happily accepted aid from racist america and colonial England because they knew Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany were much worse.
Questions?
I'm trying to read your argument generously, and it comes off as: a minority has to work with the enemy to have a chance at achieving some of its goals.
Please correct me, as that doesn't seem right?
The GOPedo with Trump are still in the popular minority of votes, they haven't been neither popular majority nor willing to compromise for 50 years.
White Christians aren't a US minority group, or do you mean that the GOPedo has negotiated with them for the current policies? (With minorities I refer to political minority powers, not necessarily demographics)
Or is it the plurality of voters that should accept working with Trump over Biden to get some of their policy? It would seem that Biden would be the compromise candidate, as Trump doesn't seem to be pursuing any voter driven policy (health care, jobs, lower inflation, lower cost of living, legalising drugs, etc.), besides perhaps those of further US minorities (Heritage foundation, oligarchs, Saudi Arabia, Russia).
Would you please clarify what you're arguing for with your picked examples?