• RadRev [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    If you're going to argue optics and rhetoric then argue optics and rhetoric. What you said was "it’s not unreasonable to believe he did more for the white working class of the Midwest and other small towns than Biden has in his entire career." You didn't say certain people might think he's done more for the working class you said that he might have actually done more for the working class which is just absolutely not true. Just because Biden is also bad doesn't mean Trump is somehow less bad.

    • cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      My comment isn't about him materially doing more and if it came across that way that was wrong. I am only talking about how people are able to convince themselves that he's done more for them than Biden.

      The fact that Joe Biden is no longer supporting free trade after supporting it for 40 years of his career is something Trump can point to and say, hey this is something I've actually done. Changing the DC consensus on free trade is certainly something a group of concerned voters could use as reasoning for why they think he's been better than Trump.

      Maybe it's just editorializing by journalists, but I've seen a number of stories and segments over the past few weeks that find some former Obama voters in small town pennsylvania and michigan who say this sort of thing. That they think Trump is better for them because of his positions around trade and less so around environmental regulation.