Posted on 10/27/2024 6:24:30 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Because he’s not an American, he can say what American journalists refuse to say, which is that Americans are desperate for Trump’s fight and love of country.
I’ve been toying with several ideas for writing today, but they all went out the window when I saw Bruno Maçães’s “Letter from Michigan,” published in The New Statesman, an outlet that even Wikipedia identifies as “far left.” Maçães’s essay presents a shattering view of America. And through that view, he ably explains why increasing numbers of Americans are looking to Trump, who promises to restore our nation’s former greatness, rather than to Kamala, who promises more of the same decay that’s been the norm in Democrat-run cities and that Harris and Biden have brought to America as a whole.
Sidney and Beatrice Webb, two of the best-known British Fabians (they wanted pure socialism via a slow-roll through existing institutions rather than a bloody revolution), founded The New Statesman in 1913. In the 111 years since then, the publication has never deviated from its commitment to socialism.
Bruno Maçães is a regular columnist at The New Statesman and was Portugal’s former Secretary of State for European Affairs. He is a creation of and devoted to elitist leftist ideas. That means the essay I’m about to discuss comes from a hard leftist writing for a hard-left British publication that will be read by a hard-left audience.
The essay, published on October 21 and updated on the 24th, is entitled “Letter from Michigan: No one I know is voting for Kamala Harris”: Will Donald Trump win the struggling swing state?” Because Maçães believes, correctly, that Trump is a known quantity, so there’s little left to learn or say about him, he went to Michigan because “I was mostly curious about his supporters.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Factories keep closing or laying off workers, and inflation has wiped out a large chunk of their income and savings. Drugs and alcohol are everywhere.
This is an America with no visible signs of wealth. From downtown Detroit to Dearborn and Warren, and then the rural counties north of Flint, there is rampant poverty, dwindling opportunities and an ageing population. By next year, more than 40 per cent of Michigan counties will have more than a quarter of their population older than 65. Many attendees told me they were unemployed. All complained about grocery prices. They spoke with little ambition for their jobs, careers, and even for their children.
Indeed.
In the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 the Pope awarded half the planet to Portugal.
Today they have a country the size of Indiana.
Forward comrades!
Lol.
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