Carl in Michigan
Diamond Member
- Aug 15, 2016
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They'll never get it. They'll just keep insulting the one voting bloc they'll never want....
A discontented Michigan town: America should have seen Trump coming
"The center of the country is what put Donald Trump in office," he said.
"If the economy's okay, they shut their mouths and go to work," he said, describing the sort of people who live in places like Algonac, where 97 percent of residents are white.
"But if you start to smack them, when you start telling the guys working in a coal mine in West Virginia, 'For the good of the country, we're going to put you out of a job, for the good of cleaner air we're going to put you out of a job,' then you start to create a constituency of people that fall into a category of 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend.'"
CRUDE TERMS FOR CLINTON
Mentioning Clinton, a former secretary of state, U.S. senator and first lady, tended to draw scorn among Algonac residents in April, even among some Democrats who said they viewed her as untrustworthy.
A discontented Michigan town: America should have seen Trump coming