"The Economist went to a construction site in Ohio, a key swing state - and this is what they found"

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

[rso]

1. Ohio

This is why he loves the poorly educated.

[LisaL]

3. Uneducated white males is his base.

NT

[stillcool]

2. yowza..I don't want what they're drinking..

or do I?

[DFW]

7. From the sound of it

I'd say undiluted LSD.

They must frequent bars that have signs out front saying, "Reality not permitted in this establishment."

[COLGATE4]

4. JFC CON A CRUTCH!!!!!!!!!!!

Proof positive that you can't fix stupid, you can't reason with stupid, you can't argue with stupid and you can't trust stupid.

[Solly Mack]

5. Those fuckers actually believe 6 inches equals a foot.

[TheBlackAdder]

40. Yeah, it's not like it's a Subway sandwich or something. 😂

[Solly Mack]

41. Oh, now.

Can't trust a construction worker that doesn't know the difference between 6 inches and a foot.

But, yeah.

[In It to Win It]

6. well that's interesting

[Claustrum]

8. Reducing national debt??? are you kidding me?

[Firestorm49]

9. 😜. Sure. Right. He fixed health care. National debt down?

Blind is as blind does.

[rockfordfile]

10. Those people in that piece sound like idiots.

[bullimiami]

31. It's not just a sound. How they're able to measure and cut and nail without killing themselves is

one of the deep mysteries.

[superpatriotman]

11. And their vote counts the same as yours

And there are lots of them (low information voters)

[CrispyQ]

12. Republicans have never been in favor of public education.

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing." ~Karl Rove

[Claustrum]

36. They talk a lot about "liberal colleges or universities"

but they can never pinpoint which part of the education is "liberal". I learned reading comprehension, critical thinking, problem solving, math, physics, etc. but I have never taken a class that directly taught me "liberal ideology".

[BSdetect]

13. The are the impressionable suckers he loves to inculcate with repeated lies.

[captain queeg]

14. Glad I left there a long time ago. I guess if all you do is watch Fox

Proud of their own stupidity. I wonder if there is a correlation with trumpers and those who have never lived anywhere else. Society is much more mobile but there are still many people who stay where they grew up, maybe an occasional vacation to some other state or even country.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

30. And some people never leave the USA to live elsewhere...

... either. Chumps.

[BannonsLiver]

15. Imagine still doing bubba safaris 4 years in

And notice how they never go out and find Dem friendly demo groups? It’s always white men and their grievances that are sought out.

[2naSalit]

16. I once heard that...

gawd created beer to construction workers wouldn't rule the world.

[CanonRay]

17. Every single one of those things is the exact opposite of what they said

SNH

[Celerity]

22. +1000

[Hoyt]

18. Truth -- "trump is a racist/bigot and ignorant white wingers appreciate his efforts."

[Guilded Lilly]

19. Catering to the utterly brain dead imbeciles apparently works well for The Cretin.

[Thekaspervote]

20. It's a red state...it isn't a swing state!! let's ask in the swing states

[Newest Reality]

21. It is interesting to see...

It is interesting to see construction workers who don't know about or understanding the manufacture of their consent.

They are buying into a product designed just for them, but it does not need to correspond at all with reality at all and their cult provides immunity to it.

That product is a reflection and extension of their own ignorance and malleability because Trump provides a caricature character that they can easily identify with. When you look at that Trump, you are seeing who and what these people are at their core and somebody is selling them back to themselves and the funny part is they may have no actual idea about what is going on in that exchange.

Trump's Chumps!

[Roland99]

23. Tariffs are paid by American consumers!!

This guy is beyond a fucking moron

#Cult45

[Botany]

24. I know those types of "boys"

White, racist, high school grad (maybe), listen to Rush & Fox, 85% of them are concealed carry
or want to be, and they like the fact that Trump is an asshole because he is not politically correct.

Although they do not reflect all of the state .... but at a construction site "those types" tend to be
concentrated.

And many of them really believe that antifa exists and that the blacks want to take over.
Corvid 19 will take many of them out because they don't believe in masks.

[dalton99a]

25. Kick

The construction workers’ erroneous takes on Mr Trump’s record (his administration in fact turbocharged the debt even before covid-19 struck, has reduced health-care coverage and has a lot of wall left to build) offered a clue to how he has exerted such control over his party. Notwithstanding the strength of the pre-covid economy, the loyalty of Mr Trump’s voters is not — or not mostly — a response to his policies or record. Political scientists — on the left and right — long ago discovered that most voters are flexible on such matters. They choose leaders who seem to reflect their values, rearrange their policy priorities accordingly and, in a hyperpolarised environment, also to an extent their critical judgments.

Thus the alacrity with which Republicans ditched free trade and fiscal conservatism. Thus, too, the transformation in how they viewed the economy within days of the 2016 election. Mr Trump’s subsequent success in binding in his supporters ever tighter owes to the relentlessness with which he has highlighted, again and again, the values they have entrusted him with and the threats to those values, real and imagined, he claims his critics present.

Unlike any predecessor, he has never stopped campaigning. He held a hundred rallies as president — not including presidential set pieces, such as state-of-the-union addresses, that he treats as purely political events — before his re-election campaign began. He has decried even conservative critics as enemies of what he and his voters stand for. The effect of this constant grandstanding is to keep challenging his supporters to recommit themselves to him, publicly or privately, and in the process harden their loyalty.

[brush]

26. This is silly. What else would we expect from a construction site...

full of non-college white males? Why don't they go to suburbs full of white women and get their responses?

[Botany]

32. The media is now selling that it is still a horse race now

and yes go to a construction site full of uneducated white men in OH ... or anywhere else
and you will get Trump supporters. Ohio has become Alabama north but given a clean vote
here Trump will get crushed.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

27. Not surprising.

The biggest Republican / Trump supporters are often found among semi-skilled white workers who had to make the 'monumental sacrifice' of a few weeks or months for training.

Like the lengthy training to become a cop.

[SoonerPride]

28. We are doomed.

These statements are 100% wrong in entirety

And pointing out how they are wrong the person would t believe facts

Brainwashed morons.

We

Are

Doomed.

[Claustrum]

38. We're not doomed in the least because most people aren't as mis-informed

The problem is that the media decided to continue to make uneducated white men or college educated white men their focus while ignoring the other majority of people. They love their "silent Trump voter" narrative.

[Martin Eden]

29. That has to be an excerpt from The Onion, or the Borowitz Report

Surely no one is stupid enough to believe every single one of those falsehoods.

[OhioBlue]

33. unfortunately, they are. I'm surrounded by them.

[Martin Eden]

34. Let me guess:

Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Breitbart, Daily Caller, Infowars, QAnon.

[OhioBlue]

35. yep, and facebook memes

The other day, I saw a meme with a clip of a post from Breitbart about a tweet from an abortion doctor. It was shared many times as actual news.

[yardwork]

37. He got healthcare done?! JFC. There are no words.

[lindysalsagal]

39. Just plain stupid.

The founders knew we needed a smart electorate to operate democracy. This is not sustainable.