Lunch Box Donald - Why blue-collar workers are going red.

frontpagemag.com ^ | 3/6/2021 | don feder

[bitt]

An NBC News poll released last week reflects one of the most significant political trends of the past 30 years – the realignment of blue-collar workers who’ve left the party of Planned Parenthood and Drag Queen Story Hour for the party of energy-independence, fair-trade deals and border security.

The poll shows that between 2010 and 2020, the Republican share of blue- collar votes rose from 45% to 57%. Within the same demographic, its Hispanic vote went from 23% to 36%, while its black working-class vote went from 5% to 12%.

In 1992, Bill Clinton carried 49% of counties where at least 25% of the workforce was employed in manufacturing. In 2016, Donald Trump took 95%. What used to be one of the left’s most reliable constituencies is now going the way of evangelicals in their flight from a party that’s lost both its mind and its soul.

Writing in The Detroit News on April 10, 2019, Terry Bowman (a 22- year UAW/Ford worker) charges: “While Democrats fight for policies that crush working-class communities, Republicans and our president are fighting for blue-collar jobs and traditional American values.”

The geezer in the White House is becoming a job-killing machine. On Day One, the Keystone XL-Pipeline was axed. And that’s just a down-payment on Biden’s debt to the Greenies. But, not to worry. As John Forbes Kerry assured us, unemployed pipeline workers can get good-paying jobs manufacturing solar panels – in China.

It’s infuriating the way Democrats can speak so nonchalantly about sacrificing the opportunities of others. Campaigning in 2016, the warm and lovable Hillary Clinton boasted, “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business!” This from someone who probably never lifted anything heavier than a nail file.

[bitt]

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[Graybeard58]

They are working class.

Not dumb ass.

[Spktyr]

Dunno. Lots of them voted for Biden anyway. That rather does make them dumbasses, especially when they continue to vote Dem.

[pepsi_junkie]

Because they liked having jobs?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

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[rdl6989]

Hasn’t this been happening since Reagan?

[GOPJ]

In 1992, Bill Clinton carried 49% of counties where at least 25% of the workforce was employed in manufacturing. In 2016, Donald Trump took 95%. What used to be one of the left’s most reliable constituencies is now going the way of evangelicals in their flight from a party that’s lost both its mind and its soul.

Corrupt white liberal 'elites' can't pretend their power grabs are for the sake of workers any more. Lots of groups are figuring out white liberal elites are ONLY for white liberal 'elites'...

[RitaOK]

This article reveals exactly why Democrats are overtly cheating, to survive.

MAGA

[escapefromboston]

Dems have the market cornered on the non-working class (welfare moms and trust fund babies)

[stylin19a]

I don’t recall that Pres. Donald J Trump cared much if Johnny Lunch Bucket was union or not...it was about the jobs and the benjamins staying in America.

[jmacusa]

The modern left despises working people. None of the Hollywood degenerates or the glitterati understand what it is to work. They don't know what it is to do manual labor in the hot sun or freezing cold, drive a truck, to do plumbing, clean a toilet or mop a floor. They think working with one's hands is beneath them.

[motor_racer]

The Dems are the party of death and sexual perversions, and they survive by bribing the foolish with “goodies” paid for with money stolen through taxation, or outright printing of money.

[robowombat]

Many of the Canada to the Gulf pipeline voted rat and were stunned when they lost jobs. Dumb cannot be fixed.

[TXBlair]

Campaigning in 2016, the warm and lovable Hillary Clinton boasted, “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business!” This from someone who probably never lifted anything heavier than a nail file.

Disagree. Hillary lifts her stumpy legs into Ol' Crusty every day.

Oh, who am I kidding? She pays one of her minions to do it.

[knarf]

We made/had money under Trump, we’re losing/lost money under Biden.

[daku]

Many times I’ve been scolded by leftist acquaintances for voting Republican. They reason that I’ll never be a millionaire and am foolish for giving them my support. Yet gasoline has gone up nearly a dollar per gallon since the supposed party of the common man has been placed in charge. Borders are now open to workers who threaten blue collar wages and job security. Schools will now push for bent gender curriculum. I’m a Trump supporter because I’m looking out for my and my fellow Americans best interests.

[Candor7]

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot!

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