Posted on 09/15/2019 11:32:09 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It is not an unusual sentiment in this blue-collar corner of Pennsylvania: “I voted Trump last time, and I’ll vote Trump next time because there’s a lot of loonies out there.”
What is unusual is that Gary Reese, 75, served as the Democratic mayor of Kingston, a town in Luzerne County at the heart of what used to be the state’s coal belt, in the 1990s. “The Democrats used to be about the working man,” he continued. “Now, they sound like communists.”
Luzerne County emerged as one of the bellwethers of Mr Trump’s unlikely 2016 victory, a place where a predominantly white, blue-collar electorate plumped for the Republican nominee. Here, successive victories for Barack Obama were transformed into a Trump win of 26,000 votes — more than half his winning margin in a state that flipped from blue to red.
Voters were motivated by his promise to bring back jobs, keep out illegal immigrants, and to speak for a population who believed they had been forgotten.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Not a belief but visibly apparent in Pennsylvania and across the country.
Americans saw how they were written off and worse, sabotaged with illegal immigration and opioids.
“The Democrats used to be about the working man,” he continued. “Now, they sound like communists.”
That’s because they ARE communists!
Democrats used to be for people who work hard. Now they are for people who hardly work.
(I wish I could say I thought up that line. But I actually overheard it when two young people talking politics walked past me.)
“Now, they sound like communists.”
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Because they are communists.
“What is unusual is that Gary Reese, 75, served as the Democratic mayor of Kingston..”
Old enough to remember when America was still America (before Obama) and republicans and democrats could be friends.
Maybe they can find a couple more Democrat former mayors of Kingston who now support Trump, and call them the Kingston Trio.
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