Posted on 10/24/2024 11:27:51 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Anti-Trumpers like me see the presidential election as a reckoning for American democracy. For many Donald Trump supporters, it is a simple matter of dollars and cents.
Late this summer, I left my home in New York City to talk to dozens of working-class people in the South, the Midwest and the West. I had no agenda except to hear what they were saying and try to understand the world from their point of view. I interviewed hairdressers and retired sawmill workers, bakers, truck drivers, laundromat managers, pit barbecue cooks, casino card dealers and even a former professional rodeo rider.
The most common term people used to describe the economy was “horrible.” A close second was, “It sucks.”
I talked to men and women, white people, Black people, Latinos, Asians and Native Americans. They looked different, but they sounded the same. Everyone wanted better material conditions for themselves and their families, and everyone was struggling to obtain them. Some didn’t want to talk about politics. Others felt so ignored by politicians that they have disengaged from the process altogether. Everyone who offered an opinion was for Mr. Trump.
If the nation is a body politic, then working people are the nerve endings that feel its economic spasms most acutely. While some of their reaction is the result of chronic, decades-long conditions, the most noticeable pains have presented themselves in the past few years. The worst inflation and the fastest rise in interest rates since the early 1980s — to well-off people, these are headlines. To working people, they are fundamental challenges to their daily lives. Working people worry much more about payday than they do Jan. 6.
Fair enough: But why turn to a lying, abusive billionaire to help them solve their economic problems? Their explanation is simple. Times were...
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“Anti-Trumpers like me”
“I had no agenda...”
Ok
I wonder if this year’s voters would put Vance over the top just to get rid of the DEMs in the White House.
“No agenda?” He’d be the first NYT journalist without an agenda.
“Everyone who offered an opinion was for Mr. Trump.”
:-)
Well at least this guy is open about himself and honest about the working class electorate. His employer usually does not allow that.
Mighty big of you.
But give him credit. Maybe he'll start thinking.
***Donald Trump is a threat to BUREAUCRACY.***
Bears repeating.
Use of the term “Working Class” serves to illustrate the elitist attitude if the NY Times.
Interesting response that adds to this, that I recently got while out canvassing.
“I don’t like Trump. But I can’t afford Kamala. I’m voting for Vance.”
“Vance is a smart guy, very classy, I like him a lot. I’m good with that, we’ll get good policy.”
Men and women? What about the rest of the alphabet, Adam?
white people and Black people? No bias there, Adam.
Latinos, Asians and Native Americans? Aren’t they people, Adam?
Next time, get a couple of cronies to help write your article. Now give me two minutes of hate, Adam.
bttt
“ But why turn to a lying, abusive billionaire to help them solve their economic problems? Their explanation is simple.”
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Well, besides the fact that I strongly disagree with his characterization of Trump, the explanation for why people are drawn to Trump is, in fact, simple: he knows how the economy works and will get things headed back in the right direction fairly quickly, just like he did during his first term. One thing that I have noticed is that Democrats in general don’t know a damn thing about how the economy works or about foreign and defense policy. They routinely, both as individuals and as president, screw up on these two highly important issues. I honestly cannot understand how people vote for them, knowing how badly they do , screw things up. I would think that this number of Dem Presidents messing up because they are economic and foreign policy illiterates (Carter, Clinton, Traitorbama and soft-in-the-head Biden) would have taught people not to vote for them. But, apparently, six terms of disastrous leadership isn’t enough for some people.
My business is still down over 90% since the chomo. If Trump is allowed to win, I predict it will recover to everything pre-chomo Joe.
I have an idea - let's import 90,000 English speaking illegals willing to work as journalist for twenty bucks an hour THEN ask the jerkoff Adam Seessel how he 'feels now'...
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