> The war on drugs is and has always been racist, it is targeting minorities and filling prisons. How it is precieved is a different thing.

You're missing the point: do today's voters tend to think of it that way? In my opinion, no, they do not.

So if you go around arguing that the war on drugs is racist, or exclusively for the benefit of prisons, a lot of people know it isn't racist for them, and that they don't agree because they have an interest in prisons, and you will not change their mind.