Posted on 10/03/2019 6:44:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I spent an evening this week driving through a series of small towns in Michigan and Ohio while visiting my daughter at Hillsdale College in rural Michigan.
While having dinner, what appeared to be a drug-addled gentleman walked by our table, and my daughter whispered to me that these towns are struggling badly with opioid addiction.
This is not surprising. While the towns have plenty of charm, all of them are struggling economically due to the absence of industry. Driving through gutted out main streets, it is easy to imagine how these towns bustled in years past. It is hard not to be left with a sense of anger and sorrow.
Even as Democrats failed Americans living in the inner-city areas, politicians from both parties failed the people in these rural towns, viewing them as collateral damage in their globalization crusade.
Candidate and then president Donald Trump spoke to the problem ravaging small towns across America, particularly in the rust belt. Instead of telling these Americans that they needed to accept their sad lot in life, he fought for them as he sought to bring industry back. He is having some real success. Even this week, the president was able to point to Navistar, Apple, Hyundai Motor Group, and Aptiv as having plans to bring jobs back to America. He joked that he was the chosen one, but the truth is that he was likely the only politician who understood the economic piracy enough to face down China.
If the corrupt tornado in the blue pantsuit had deemed to touch down in these Michigan towns in 2016, she would have seen how foolish her message was here. The residents of these towns are not irredeemable deplorables, but patriotic Americans who had been hammered by globalization,
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Joe Sixpack Union worker knows exactly what $50,000 a month for a no show job is. All the lipstick in the world isn’t going to get this pig a date.
Yup.
Above all else the 2016 election was a rejection of Chicago School/Milton Friedman/Lassez-Faire economics.
America took a thirty year test drive, handed back the keys and said “No Sale!”
Any candidate who wants to take us back there is not likely to fare very well.
A very touching story. thanks for posting.
Your post is confusing to me
Trump needs to make a commercial about buying American.
Look for the Made in the USA label.
This would be a YUGE hit in the heartland.
Especially among the union workers in OH/MI etc.
Only as far as "Free Trade" is concerned. Even that label was a lie. We gave a trillion dollars of aid to China.
“Above all else the 2016 election was a rejection of Chicago School/Milton Friedman/Lassez-Faire economics.”
Hardly. Neither party did anything remotely resembling Friedman economic policy. A few Republicans paid it lip service but they never actually implemented any of it.
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Small towns are not going to win Michigan, Wisconsin, or Pennsylvania. It’s the vote in Philadelphia and Detroit and Pittsburgh and Milwaukee and Madison and their surrounding suburbs that will win those states. And if Trump can’t get the same level of support there as he did in 2016 then he’s going to have problems.
In addition to PDJT hopefully winning 2020 by a record-breaking landslide, patriots need to wake up and support him with a new patriot Congress this time, new patriot lawmakers that will promise to fully support his vision for MAGA, now KAG.
Because
“Above all else the 2016 election was a rejection of Chicago School/Milton Friedman/Lassez-Faire economics.”
has absolutely nothing to do with what you just wrote.
Milton Friedman advocated a welfare to work encouragement, elimination of public housing, smaller government, less regulations, free trade (but it has to be both ways, China did not do that), controlled debt (elimination would be best), freedom to build, create, exploit the markets, etc
None of that happened, we never had “free trade” in the sense Milton Friedman advocated. So I can’t see how the past 30 years are at fault when nobody followed anything the man said.
Joe Sixpack Union worker can also easily see how Obama promised that lost manufacturing jobs were never coming back, and how Trump brought them back, by the hundreds of thousands.
I just hope that he’ll have more than enough votes to keep the Dems from stealing the election. I don’t want to have Dems find enough ballots in a trunk of a car... I want them to find ballots in a 2 mile long freight train to try to overturn PDJT...
Laughably, demonstrably, and pathetically false. Not one person who voted for Trump was voting against Laissez Faire economics.
2016 was primarily a rejection of Establishment politicians. In the Democrat primaries, ~50% voted for someone who was not a member of the Democrat Party. In the GOP primaries, ~83% voted for candidates who were not politicians, or were anti-Establishment... CEO Carly, CEO Trump, Dr Carson, and the anti-Senator Cruz. That's 2/3 of all voters, even with most of the rest voting for Her Heinous Hillary, the coronated-too-soon queen of America.
Not one poll showed anyone voting for or against Laissez Faire economics. Not one voter protested for or against Milton Friedman. Very very few in the media talked about the usual "it's the economy, stupid" theme, since Obamanomics were so poor. Your hypothesis is utterly without merit or supporting facts. You're simply attempting to impute your preferences on a past event. Again, pathetic.
"Above all else the 2016 election was a rejection of the moon landing hoax!"
Makes just about as much sense.
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