Posted on 11/08/2020 6:22:27 AM PST by rintintin
MILWAUKEE — Gerry Winkleman points across the Milwaukee River at the former tannery where he worked for almost two decades as a union welder, repairing blow pipes and net machines that produced thousands of leather shoes and handbags every year. Follow the latest on Election 2020
Winkleman, 74, drives through a stretch of downtown Milwaukee that once served as a hub of U.S. manufacturing, pausing occasionally to note the factories that have either shuttered or moved their production to China over the past three decades: the Pabst and Schlitz breweries; the Allis-Chalmers manufacturing giant; several different tanneries; the Briggs & Stratton foundry; and Kearney & Trecker, which produced milling machines.
Winkleman voted for a Republican presidential candidate for the first time in his life in 2016, largely due to Donald Trump’s promise to bring back manufacturing jobs and invest $1 trillion to rebuild U.S. infrastructure in Rust Belt states like Wisconsin. This year, Winkleman will vote for former vice president Joe Biden, a decision sealed in part by Trump’s decision to pursue tax cuts — which Winkleman says primarily benefited the rich — over infrastructure investments. Winkleman
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the article was correct in saying that Trump promised a $1 trillion infrastructure building program - and it never happened. What the article doesn’t say is that Ryan and McConnell blocked it.
As if the election was not stolen
The party about to lose the election by razor thin margins in the 11th hour in several states has asked for protection against vote fraud for decades.
The party about to win the election by razor thin margins in the 11th hour insisted vote fraud was rare, isolated and fought increased protections against fraud.
Whether or not the election is skewed by fraud, anyone unwilling to understand why the aggrieved party is skeptical and frustrated is acting in bad faith.
- Jeremiah MacRoberts
The question I haven’t heard asked is why the Democrat desperation at the moment in time? With this election? “
Because they finally had all the pieces of the board. Especially placing the rigged software in enough swing state counties to steal it. In Georgia they even paused counting to install a patch because they hadn’t tilted it enough. The after midnight bags of ballots were used in 18 but the voting machine software was used to seal it.
Winkler is an idiot. No wonder he is a life ling communist/Democrat.
By denying him a second term, they get to try to sell the message that his election was a fluke. They all want things to go back to normal where the left gets to make steady progress in many areas while the corporations get to sell out America to China and the deep state gets its endless wars. Much harder to do that if he’s re-elected as it shows that Americans don’t really want that. They might have stolen others, but they definitely stole this one. They had to for their survival.
Only question is whether we allow that theft to stand.
If an infrastructure bill had been passed it may have helped, but I’m not convinced it would have prevented what happened last week.
It is a shame though that Ryan and McConnell pursued the doomed effort to repeal Obamacare and the tax cuts first.
The tax cuts were mostly good, as all tax payers got a cut, and the corporate rate got a needed reduction to be more competitive with rates in other western nations. In hindsight Trump should have insisted that the carried interest matter that Ryan and his cronies removed be included in the bill. Most of the guys benefiting from it are probably Democrats so screw em anyway. It would have helped deflect the “tax cuts for the rich” charge.
On Obamacare the GOP of course faced a biased press that lied about their replacement plan, but at the same time I think many Republicans were stuck in the midterm election mindset from the Obama years, where they gained lots of seats because of the unpopularity and negative effects of the aca. The simple fact is that by 2017 public opinion towards Obamacare had shifted due mostly to the pre-existing clauses that are overwhelmingly popular. Again, the Left lied about the GOP removing protections for pre-existing conditions but the GOP response was, as usual, weak and unfocused. And knowing how popular those provisions were any replacement plan should have been ironclad in protect them.
“Winkler is an idiot”
That’s who he is.
They plan to replace him with a Mexican or Chinese “worker”.
If the idiots in the upper midwest think this is 1970 and the Unions will ride to their rescue with another government spending program, they’re nuts.
But I don’t think they are. Trump won Wisconsin and Michigan.
Trump also championed Social Security in his 2016 campaign.
But this year he cut the tax that pays for Social Security - the FICA tax (so-called “payroll tax”). Although it’s a temporary cut, it allowed Biden to tell seniors that Trump was threatening Social Security. It was a tactical error, and Trumps share of seniors in the middle west did go down from 2016 accord to exit polls
Bottom line: Trump won as a populist, not a Romney/Ryan tax cutter. But he let Ryan and Mitch blunt a lot of his populism
I lived in Milwaukee—just 2 blocks from Thuringer Sausage.
This idiot is an example of WHY I left Milwaukee-never to return.
They spend a lifetime paying a Union ‘for their job’ and they NEVER spend a moment in a lifetime trying to connect ALL the dots. Payday comes with an automatic night in a bar spending too much $$$ there and coming home drunk & in an amorous mood-—What an attractive notion that is.
Their idea of a Christmas Present for the wife is : “LEATHER GOODS” = “A belt in the mouth & a boot in the ass”.
When I saw my ‘future’ as a wife of one of those slackers, I literally FLED Wisconsin. That was the correct move.
This ‘union worker’ cannot realize that many of those companies went out of this country due to UNION DEMANDS & STRIKES.
I will bet an ice cream bar that he is a lifetime Union member—with a barely passing high school diploma.
I don’t disagree. And I’ll add that in my opinion the only viable path forward as a national party with any realistic shot at the Presidency, the GOP must embrace populist conservatism.
I see no other path. Those wanting to return to the Bush model have to face the fact that the Bush path to 270 electoral votes closed and there is no reason to think states like Virginia and Colorado are retrievable.
But I wonder if there are any Republicans waiting in the wings who can deliver the goods as a conservative populist. Even among those I think have some potential (Senator Cotton, Governor DeSantis, Senator Cruz, Governor Noem) I don’t see any combining Trump’s populist positions on immigration, trade, and foreign policy, nor do I see any improving on Trump regarding taxes.
I know that down ballot the GOP did much better than expected last week, but I can’t help but feel bleak about prospects for winning back the White House.
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