The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Saturday, June 25, 2016

So why aren't they still Democrats?

Uprising in the rust belt

Subtitle: They used to be Democrats. Now they really could hand Donald Trump the White House.

The story focuses on working class, industrial Pennsylvania, devastated by decades of free trade in steel and again by the Democrats' wars on coal and shale oil, both of which promise to get much worse.

Of course they worry about Social Security and Medicare, but they have to privilege jobs for today over retirement security for tomorrow.

And they think Trump is better for jobs.

Their jobs, anyway.

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