After reading this article, it helped me understand the MAGA mind more. One statement that stuck out for me was: "Youngstown (Ohio) is remarkable for the consensus between people of opposing views about the underlying problems and the frustrations that stem from them. They disagree only on the remedy.". The citizens of Youngstown have been living in one of the most depressed cities in the US and politicians of both stripes have let them down. The impression seems to be the Democrats will lie to your face, but the Republicans will screw you over straight to your face - many Ohioans seem to prefer the honest crook! The honest crook whose "success was a symptom of the Democrats’ failure to address the catastrophic impact of international trade agreements on manufacturing jobs in the US – a failure he pins on Bill Clinton and Barack Obama – and its further failure, under Obama, to take any meaningful action against Wall Street or the big banks after the housing collapse of 2007-08 (which Bush Jr. caused). I'm understanding the reasoning of the Trump voter, there is the saying "It takes a thief to catch a thief" and there is the fact Trump was looking
They see a political class corrupted by big-money donors who, they say, don’t care about communities like theirs. Democrats will lie to your face - Republicans will screw you over right to your face.
Betras said Trump’s success was a symptom of the Democrats’ failure to address the catastrophic impact of international trade agreements on manufacturing jobs in the US – a failure he pins on Bill Clinton and Barack Obama – and its further failure, under Obama, to take any meaningful action against Wall Street or the big banks after the housing collapse of 2007-08. Bush Jr. caused the financial crisis with deregulation
Trump is an honest crook (ok). I understand it takes a thief to catch a thief (not sure I buy it, but I understand the reasoning) Maybe one thing we have on our side is trump looks close to death.
His future vice-presidential pick, Ohio senator JD Vance, wrote letters to the White House (about East Palestine) to demand a more vigorous response. That was enough to sway local residents
Tim O’Hara, a former president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union at Lordstown. “One thing I wasn’t then and I’m not now is a racist, misogynistic, uninformed dipshit who enjoys supporting a rapist, felon, traitor … These people have no clue yet what they’ve done, but they will find out.”
Their worries were about the cost of living and taking care of friends they’ve loved for decades and what it means to be working class in an era that has either outsourced or mechanised the work they used to do.
