Progressive PowerPolitics A Deeply Pro Trump Town In #Nebraska Is Losing 3,200 Jobs Due To His Economic Policies And Residents Are “Sobbing” In Disbelief
These folks voted for a guy who has spent his entire career stiffing contractors and deregulating corporations, and now they are shocked when the material consequences of those policies hit their own backyard.
It is the classic conservative cognitive dissonance: they probably think the “leopards” only eat the faces of the people in the cities or the immigrants they were told to hate. But capital does not care about your loyalty or your vote; it only cares about the bottom line. Trump’s populism was always an aesthetic, not an economic plan, and now Lexington is paying the price for buying into the grift.
A Deeply Pro Trump Town In #Nebraska Is Losing 3,200 Jobs Due To His Economic Policies And Residents Are “Sobbing” In Disbelief
These folks voted for a guy who has spent his entire career stiffing contractors and deregulating corporations, and now they are shocked when the material consequences of those policies hit their own backyard.
It is the classic conservative cognitive dissonance: they probably think the “leopards” only eat the faces of the people in the cities or the immigrants they were told to hate. But capital does not care about your loyalty or your vote; it only cares about the bottom line. Trump’s populism was always an aesthetic, not an economic plan, and now Lexington is paying the price for buying into the grift.
