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Trump is a populist president elected on the back of disparaged unemployment-belt blue collar workers. That's why he hates fentanyl (these places have insane o
by Workaccount2 1y ago
Trump is a populist president elected on the back of disparaged unemployment-belt blue collar workers.
That's why he hates fentanyl (these places have insane opiate use rates), that why he loves coal (symbolic of the "great days"), that's why he hates immigrants (undercutting wages), why he hates china (that's were the factories went), and that is why he loves tariffs (American manufacturing protectionism).
Watch a video showcasing what West Virgina is like today, listen to what the people who live there say, and you can totally understand what Trump is trying to do, and why these people treat him like a messiah.
I'm not saying Trump is a messiah, or a good leader, or that the people in west virgina (or categorically adjacent places) are level headed. But simply that his plan is coherent if you put yourself in the shoes of the people who are clinging to the past and were left out of the future.
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- myrmidon 1y agoCompletely agree. And anti-immigration policies are suprisingly popular even in non-blue collar circles, because you can sell it as "fighting foreign cultural influence", and a lot of people (globally) are quite convinced that their culture/values are superior (this is true across the political spectrum, too, however lots of groups will only admit to this indirectly).
- throwawayqqq11 1y agoCoherent like tarifs on everything, including resources, without legislation to bolster local manufactoring. Or how do his tax cuts fit in the big picture of the good'ol days? Or the dismantlement of public infrastructure? IMO, those 3 things are the bigges impacts he made and they are all negative. Sorry, but this justification of trumps actions sounds delusional. The only thing that interests him is spineless loyalty to serve his will and looking like the toughest guy at the top of his incompetent boot lickers.
- Workaccount2 1y agoIt's an explanation, not a justification.
- troyvit 1y agoDamn if that's your work account I'd love to read what your other accounts say. This is the most coherent picture of what that guy is doing that I've ever read. Which sucks, because I know people like Biden tried to pave a way to the future for folks like those in West Virginia by migrating jobs from coal to solar and stuff like that, but I can imagine how that went over.
- slt2021 1y agoironically west virginia is being screwed by its own elites, the coal and other large corporations, not some foreigners