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And for sure dismantling social security and all the safety nets including medicaid will help them feel welcomed again...

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How is social security being dismantled? What exactly are you talking about? Do you even know?

As I said, they're wrong about the medicine, but Trump wins by being the first to acknowledge that there's a serious problem.

I applaud you for trying, but HN doesn't want reason or understanding w.r.t trump or his voters. Way easier to label everyone/everything as fascist nazis and stick your head in the sand.

Thanks. I know. I'm here every few weeks with a fresh attempt. It went over better before the inauguration, but now that Trump is actually implementing the policies that he campaigned on it's a bit harder for people to stomach the idea that his voters are anything other than orcs.

I'll probably give it a rest here for a few more weeks.

He's not the first in the slightest.

In the last 30 years, which other nominee for president by one of the two parties that matter has made addressing the struggles of working class America the center of their platform?

That's moving the goalposts. There are plenty of candidates for Congress they voted against as well.

But, sure, how about Barack Obama? https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fact-sheet-creatin... The one who created the hated Obamacare, but they rebelled when their R representatives threatened to cancel the ACA.

No, they're the byproduct of a failed educational system and culture of unearned entitlement. They expect others to save them from drug addiction while doing every possible to prevent help. And they only have this power because of the Senate represents land instead of people.

The CHIPS act was not only an acknowledgement of the problem it was actually doing something about it.

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