- 18 Jun 2019 16:48
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“I love the poorly educated.” So declared Obese Donald back in February 2016, after a decisive win in the Nevada primary. And the poorly educated love him back: Whites without a college degree are pretty much the only group among whom Trump has more than 50 percent approval.
But in that case, why has Trump been unwilling to do anything, and I mean anything, to help the people who installed him in the White House?
White working-class voters seem to have noticed that Obese Donald isn’t working for them. A new Fox News poll finds that only 5 percent of whites without a college degree believe that Trump’s economic policies benefit “people like me,” compared with 45 percent who believe that the benefits go to “people with more money.” At least some in the white working class seem to have realized that he’s not on their side. And Democrats would be foolish not to make the most of this opening.
Remember Donald's promises to bring back coal? His own Energy Department projects that coal production next year will be 17 percent lower than in 2017.
Part of the explanation may be personal: Obese Donald's whole career shows him to be the kind of man who, if anything, takes pleasure in taking advantage of people who trusted him.
"Society in those days was a perfectly competent, perfectly complacent, ruthless machine." Virginia Woolf 1897