I’m still reading @TPCarney’s book (and you should too) but I’m going to object to his comment here: I don’t think those problems will disappear. I told Trump voters Trump couldn’t solve any of this. But he indulged their magical thinking about their own problems. https://twitter.com/TPCarney/status/1101448866308804609 …
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Replying to @RadioFreeTom @TPCarney
Well, I'm sure a whole lot of coal miners thought life would be back to the good old days. Their only factor, he told them, was President Obama.
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Replying to @elhombrelibre1 @TPCarney
I do not understand people demanding to keep being able to mine coal, and I especially do not understand their insistence that their children follow them into the mines, unless what they really want is for their children never to leave them and to take care of them forever.
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Both my grandfathers were coal miners, one quit to drive a cab and another quit to clean buildings. How badly they wanted out when they were young gave me a strong message.
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Maybe my experience in a factory town was not typical, but my mother’s advice to me as a young man was: leave this town and do not come back.
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I think we need to respect the value of rootedness in a community without either sneering at it or fetishizing it. It's always been trumped by other values in America. My father's parents came to America to get away from the coal mines.
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