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Angel Martin

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6. Democrats have forgotten the basics

Reply to Marr (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 25, 2016, 12:41 AM

Feb 2016

of being a party which represents blue collar workers as part of their coalition.

I'm old enough to remember when Democrats supported plant closing legislation. It wasn't much, but it represented an effort to try and do something.

Now, they don't even go thru the motions.

The only one who has made a big fuss about the Carrier, Ford and Nabisco plants moving to Mexico is Trump.

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