Bob Casey is running ads intended to make him look good to those good white working folks who pushed the state into the Trump column.
They are pretty disgusting stuff.
But the Republican who wants his seat is another upstart Trumpist asshole, er, white male "populist".
Trump to boost flagging Senate candidate behind immigrant crackdown
The former Pennsylvania mayor Lou Barletta’s approach to undocumented immigrants lines up closely with the president’s.
The article is perfectly clear about and opposed to the scapegoating of immigration but - unsurprisingly in a vehicle of the further left that preferred Hillary the man-hating woman to Trump but strongly preferred anti-globalist, anti-capitalist Sanders to both - itself castigates the globalization of the economy and implicitly condones protectionism, blaming the economic woes of hillbilly Pennsylvanians on too-free trade.
Those free trade treaties all these folks hate have allowed those same white morons to buy lots of manufactured goods and some foods a lot cheaper than if they were made or grown here.
And protecting coal and steel is as bad an idea now as it was when it was up to Ronald Reagan - when, come to think of it, a good part of the local professional left - local activists and DSA types - were not only for protectionism but against auto manufacturers closing plants in the Rust Belt to open new plants in the Sun Belt in order to break the UAW's control over the entire industry.
Control that enabled them to effectively push up the price paid by everyone in America for an American-made car.
And most of those folks didn't work in the auto industry.
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