President Trump's most important broken promise

[Zorro]

Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr.

Labor Day is an excellent moment to contemplate President Trump’s most important broken promise — other than the one he violates almost daily to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

I refer to his inaugural address, in which he declared: “The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.”

Those men and women, and the pledge itself, have been lost in a Trumpian memory hole.

Recall how Trump apologists insisted after the 2016 election that racial animus did not explain Trump’s victory. What mattered, they said, was that “coastal elites” (their synonym for “liberals”) had ignored the interests of hard-working people in “the heartland” battered by economic change.

So how is the heartland doing? How much has Trump done for the working people whose votes he needed to carry states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ohio?

Precious little. Even before the economic downturn induced by the pandemic, the areas that were crucial to Trump’s electoral college victory lagged behind the rest of the country.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-forgot-his-promise-to-the-forgotten-men-and-women/2020/09/06/f56dd96c-eedf-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html

[C_U_L8R]

1. He couldn't even build a stupid wall. What a loser.

Didn't even lock her up. Trump has proven to be a bloviating nitwit who can't accomplish squat. And that's a good thing. This country will be so much better off without him.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Wasn't "Infrastructure Week" supposed to help

provide jobs to a ton of his supporters? Whatever happened to that?!?!?

[SunSeeker]

3. The numbers say it all:

A Wall Street Journal study published last September found that in 77 “blue-collar and manufacturing-reliant counties across the Midwest and Northeast” that swing heavily to Trump, employment “grew by 0.5% in 2017 and 0.6% in 2018, lower than the 1% job growth in the prior two years, before Mr. Trump took office.” The counties also trailed the national growth rate of 1.5 percent in 2017 and 1.3 percent in 2018.

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