details his ideas for restoring the US economy – ideas Smith believes can be brought to the black community, but aren't being discussed on the left

Another big leap into the conservative realm for Smith was when he read Marco Rubio's book, American Dreams, last year. The book explains some of Rubio's ideas for restoring the economy and changing some of the current systems in the United States away from a strong federal government.

'I had never read anything or even encountered a conservative that actually had real ideas about how to change some of these systems and still help people,' Smith said. 'For me as a black person, these ideas of empowering and uplifting the black community, these ideas of fighting for LGBTQ rights, these are not ideas thatmy vote'. By now, however, he is fully conservative, though he says he isn't a die-hard Trump supporter. He just agrees with some of the policies the President supports

In 2016, Smith chose not to vote at all, for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump because he 'didn't believe that either one of these people deserved my vote'. And now that he actually identifies as a conservative, he said his opinions fall largely under fiscal conservatism, though his opinions are also 'informed by the Republican stance on terrorism, the Republican stance on illegal immigration and the Republican stance on building a strong military and reforming the VA'.

But just because his politics are conservative doesn't make Smith any less interested in the helping both the African American and LGBTQ communities.

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