Trump's anti-free trade rhetoric and protectionist policies, no matter how ineffective, have a very, very real appeal to a lot of people in the Rust Belt and should absolutely not be discounted. It's the entire reason the past two elections have literally been decided by a narrow swathe of a few hundred thousand votes stretching from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania.
Yeah, I grew up in the middle of all that and sort of still live in it and those jobs aren't coming back. Look at the Foxconn debacle. Shit, 40% of jobs at the big 3 plants in Detroit are filled with temp labor. Republicans aren't exactly pro union.
Lol, name one Republican policy or proposed legislation designed to benefit the working class? It's pure idpol at this point from both parties.
Trump has a few policies that the working class thinks helps them:
I think we have a very different definition of "working class".
More the rural and suburban better off working class, not everyone.
Trump's anti-free trade rhetoric and protectionist policies, no matter how ineffective, have a very, very real appeal to a lot of people in the Rust Belt and should absolutely not be discounted. It's the entire reason the past two elections have literally been decided by a narrow swathe of a few hundred thousand votes stretching from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania.
Yeah, I grew up in the middle of all that and sort of still live in it and those jobs aren't coming back. Look at the Foxconn debacle. Shit, 40% of jobs at the big 3 plants in Detroit are filled with temp labor. Republicans aren't exactly pro union.