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In the 21st century I am just as opinionated as ever, and I now have an outlet. I shall pontificate here about anything that catches my fancy; I hope I will not make too great a fool of myself. You may comment yea or nay about anything on the site; I may quote you here, or I may not. Send brickbats etc. to: dmclarke78@icloud.com.

 

March 18, 2018

The last election

Last week the Wall Street Journal presented an important fact about the last election in two or three different places. Here's William A. Galston on March 14:

In 2016, Hillary Clinton won only 472 counties, but they represented fully 64% of GDP. Donald Trump's 2,584 counties accounted for only 36%.

Of course Hillary's been bragging about this, as she should, although of course the WSJ doesn't think so. And the converse is even more important: she won the most prosperous counties, but she lost the rest. When I was a kid there was a steel mill in Middletown, Ohio, which J.D Vance wrote about in last year's best-selling Hillbilly Elegy. South Bend, Indiana had Studebaker. There was a General Motors plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, where Paul Ryan should be selling used cars. And in my home town of Kenosha there was a Simmons mattress factory, American Motors, Snap On, MacWhyte Wire Rope, American Brass and several more. All these factories provided tens of thousands of good jobs to people from all over the USA, who retired with good pensions. But those jobs are all gone, and the children and grandchildren of those workers can't find decent jobs. They should be the natural constituency of the Democratic party, but Hillary hardly visited the Midwest, and never set foot in Wisconsin. That's why my home town subscribed to Donald Trump's lies.