Will Donald Trump or Joe Biden be better for race relations?

Donald Trump is the law and order candidate and will end the violence in American cities

Question: Will Donald Trump or Joe Biden be better for race relations?
Position1 of 2›: Donald Trump will be better for race relations
Argument1 of 3›: Donald Trump is the law and order candidate and will end the violence in American cities

Trump is willing to take whatever steps are necessary to stop the violent clashes in American cities that are driven by racial tensions. With the clashes ending, racial tensions will subside.

The argument

Trump has always supported law enforcement and will take the necessary measures to end the unrest. He will end the anarchy and violence in US cities and oppose the “Marxists” and “anarchists” that have overtaken the Black Lives Matter movement. By supporting law enforcement forces, Trump will end the riots and unrest that revolves around race issues - once law, order and peace are restored, race relations will also recover.

Premises

[P1]Restoring law and order by supporting law enforcement will end the riots and violent unrest in American cities. [P2] Race relations cannot improve while cities are consumed by anarchy and racially-charged violence, and will recover once peace is restored. [P3] Trump is the candidate committed to backing law enforcement and confronting the extremist elements driving the unrest. [C] Therefore, Trump will be better for race relations because he will restore the order needed for them to heal.

Counter-arguments

Trump failed to recognise the causes of the recent unrest, and has not been strong enough in his criticism of the role played by the police and right-wing groups. In only criticising Black Lives Matter protesters, Trump has shown he has a poor understanding of racial issues, and this means he will not be able to relieve tensions. The use of greater police powers to restore law and order might be effective in bringing an end to the protests in the short term, but it will not address the underlying issues of structural racism, inequality and discrimination that are the root causes of the unrest. Trump might be able to reduce the surface-level violence, but race relations run deeper than this. Trump only recognises the symptoms, not the disease.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P1] Critics respond that this treats the unrest as the problem rather than as a symptom. The protests of 2020 followed a killing by police, so a response consisting of more police force applies the instrument being objected to, and federal deployments in Portland and elsewhere were followed by larger crowds rather than smaller ones. [Rejecting P2] The causal order is contested. On the opposing account, unrest follows from unresolved grievance, so order imposed while the grievance stands produces quiet rather than recovery — and the premise offers no account of the long periods without protest during which the disparities it would need to explain persisted. [Rejecting P3] Characterising the movement through "Marxists" and "anarchists" is what opponents identify as the weakness of the claim rather than its strength. Polling through 2020 recorded majority support for the protests, the large majority of which were logged as peaceful, and the premise supplies no way to distinguish protesters from those committing offences. Critics also point to the asymmetry — criticism directed at one side of the confrontation and not at police conduct or at armed counter-protesters — as the reason the healing role the conclusion claims would be unavailable.