Another data point.
Because many Democrats are going to #WalkAway.
These are the folks defending Bill Clinton. Defend all of the calls for leftist violence. Celebrate Antifa.
They just hate Truno because he plays to win. He fights back. He doesn’t care what they think and instead he invites their contempt and deeds off it.
Shows dems know they’re going to lose in midterms. We will pick up half a dozen senate seats and keep the house.
How about Good Jobs not vile/evil mobs!?
‘This is the blue-collar, middle-class Trump Economy’
As Larry Kudlow sat with President Donald J. Trump and Ivanka Trump in the White House State Dining Room, he revealed a telling fact about the new American economy under the Trump Administration.
“We are looking at blue-collar wage increases [that] are rising faster than white-collars,” said Kudlow, Director of President Trump’s National Economic Council. “Now, I’m not against white collars, but I’m saying this is the blue-collar, middle-class Trump Economy”—one where manufacturing and other industries that fuel prosperity in America’s heartland are thriving once again.
In the past, that wasn’t always the case. Too often, economic growth would concentrate in the hands of a wealthy few rather than lift up all American workers.
Just over three months ago, President Trump made it clear that his Administration wouldn’t let that happen during this economic boom. In July, he unveiled his Pledge to America’s Workers, calling on private companies and associations to expand programs that educate, train, and reskill Americans from high-school age to near-retirement.
Ivanka Trump has helped lead the charge, traveling to more than 14 states to visit job centers and technical education programs across America. She was also instrumental in helping shepherd the Perkins Career and Technical Education Act through Congress this summer, marking the program’s first modernization in more than a decade. Perkins CTE authorizes more than $1 billion in vocational and career-focused education funding for more than 11 million American students.
Since July, more than 160 companies have answered the President’s call to invest in career-development opportunities for our workforce. This summer, Walmart pledged 1,000,000 such opportunities. IBM pledged 100,000. FedEx pledged more than 500,000. And today, President Trump announced that the total number of commitments under the Pledge now exceeds 6 million in just over 3 months.
“The previous Administration said there won’t be any more manufacturing jobs—you’re going to need a magic wand and all of that,” President Trump said today. “Well, we had the magic wand, because we have almost 600,000 manufacturing jobs since the election. And it’s going to go much, much higher than that.”
State Room
2:35 P.M. EDT
MR. KUDLOW: Welcome, everybody. I’m Larry Kudlow. I hope I’m hooked up with the mic. I believe I am. We are — we’re here to celebrate, actually. That’s what we’re going to call this. To celebrate the new American workforce, is what I’m calling it. The new American workforce in the middle of an economic boom.
And one person has gone around the country championing, crusading, so that every worker can be — listen to this word, it’s one of my favorite words — “reskilling.” Reskilling. We’ve all got — later on, I’m going to ask her about reskilling old broadcasters and NEC directors. (Laughter.) And maybe more.
Anyway, the headline here is you have a new announcement now. This is private sector, okay? Private companies. No government. No government money. But dealing with the American workforce so it can fit in the missing links between job openings and folks who want to work.
Ivanka Trump, tell us about it.
MS. TRUMP: Thank you, Larry. And thank you for — for this opportunity. So we’re sitting in a room today surrounded by companies who have committed to investing in their workforces and workers who have benefitted, and students, from those programs.
The reality is that we have an incredible economy, a robust economy. And that’s because of deregulation, because of tax reform. And for the first time in history, we have more vacant jobs than we have unemployed workers to fill them.
And so this represents an enormous opportunity for us to think about making sure that every American worker is equipped with the skills they need, whether they’re in high school and they’re looking to graduate and have a job ready for them upon graduation, or whether they’re a mid- to late-career worker who’s looking for an opportunity to learn a new skill or learn a new trade.
So we’ve been doing that. The President, back in July, announced a call to action where he wanted the private sector to step up and start to take responsibility and take a commitment for investing in their own workforce. They did that.
Back at the end of July, we announced over 3.5 million jobs created by companies such as Apple and FedEx, Microsoft and Walmart, and so many others.
Since that period of time, more than 120 additional companies have signed our Pledge to America’s Workers. And as Larry noted, no federal funds are involved in this at all. And they’re committing to retraining, creating new jobs, creating enhanced careers opportunities, apprenticeship, learn-while-you-earn opportunities. So several of those employers are here with us today.
We’ve got the CEO from Textron, who is — has committed to 22,000 opportunities to train workers in the aviation sector. So thank you very much for that commitment. Ford Motor Company is committed to providing 55,000 new jobs and opportunities in the automotive sector. AT&T has committed to [offer] 200,000 new jobs [employees] and [reskilling] opportunities. And IPC — John, the CEO, thank you so much — this association that represents electronic assembly industry whose members have committed a total of 1 million new jobs and training opportunities. So just incredible.
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Every moral criticism this article makes about Trump I would make about Obama.
AND IN ADDITION TO THAT, Obama presided over the worst economy since the Great Depression, doubled the national debt and was a complete marshmellow in foreign policy.
Trump has had huge success on the economy and foreign policy. He hits back at an almost uniformly hostile MSM and I see that as a positive rather than a negative. Obama managed to be hugely partisan and divisive despite the MSM fellating him nonstop for 8 years.
Scariest article ever from NYT. The day they stop underestimating Trump is the day winning is going to get much harder.
There are only about 20 toss up seats, and dems only need to take two or three of those. That is where Trump,should focus, as well as hoping to pick up a few lean-dem.
A main reason normal people voted for Trump was to get rid of the business as usual political mindset (aka “moral and institutional corrosion”)
Now he’s a vampire. They never give up with their bad analogies and metaphors.
Their so busy doing evil ..they haven’t had time to vote?
All of the educated, literate, morally superior people are democrats? Well I had better turn in my two college degrees with a 4.00 GPA and my in-progress masters degree with a 3.925. I clearly didn’t deserve them.
Not just the Times. From Bret Stephens. He had to leave the WSJ because the rest of the editorial board there made peace with the reality of the Trump presidency but he just couldn't. He was the guy who wrote "If you're not appalled by Trump you're appalling". The fact that he is now slowly, haltingly, kicking and screaming, coming around to realize he was wrong is very interesting. Should the Blue Wave fail to materialize next Tuesday he may just do a complete mea culpa.
Talk about damning with faint praise.
The OP basically says that Trump supporters are all a bunch of uneducated hicks and Trump critics “...tend to be educated and educated people tend to think that the only kind of smarts worth having is the kind they possess — superior powers of articulation combined with deep stores of knowledge...”
It then goes on to say that only democrats are moral and that Trump is winning based on us hicks buying his snake oil and not on things like the economy.
Self-congratulatory claptrap and virtue-signalling.
there. fixed it.
One of the people on my staff is an absolutely craven, we must accept socialism, Bernie will win in 2020, Trump is a trust fund baby, the blue wave will give democrats a veto proof majority in both houses, Trump will be impeached by June bleating liberal. I’ve been hearing it from him since he started.
On Tuesday we will be working the election results with the mostly left wing newsrooms. I’m going to have to keep shutting the door in my office to keep from punting and laughing as his”blue wave” turns into a blue drip in front of his eyes. “My generation will eliminate Republicans from government and America will prosper under socialism!”
Tick...tick...tick...
Because all their “get out the vote” banter is doing just that. But, for the wrong side.
There’s more than one type of intelligence. Trump’s is feral. It strikes fast. It knows where to sink the fang into the vein.
This has been Trump’s consistent strength from the moment he entered the Republican race
I love these Brett Stephens type idiots who think they’re tuned in to the truth but are almost as delusional as the Democreeps they’re criticizing.Trumps strength is that he’s NORMAL in a world distorted by demoncreeps and rinos.Trump is the moral and law abiding fix to their their crazy immoral lawless crap. Brett, you’re still a douchbag.
The 'debasement' of mindless group-think? LOL - thank God for that... Moral corrosion? "Elites" governing for their own benefit isn't 'moral' and the decency to stand up to that crap isn't 'corrosion'....
Yes, the op-ed dude has some insights... the liberal crystal ball gazing two years ago (presented as news at the time) - from economy collapsing to imminent war - were all wrong. What else could he say? Water's not dirty, NAFTA's not worse, North Korea's hasn't nuked us, market's are up, unemployment is down... minorities are doing better.. etc etc...
And the current lies the New York Times is telling about Trump - that he's a demagogue etc will also be proved false... NYT's smart men by 'drawing room' standard where fools come and go shallowly chatting of Michelangelo... Yes, this one op-ed guy is more insightful than the rest - but how much does that really say?