The Industrial Midwest is Trump country because Trump says out loud what the ruling-class machine wants memory-holed. They shipped away the jobs, opened the border, let fentanyl and chaos pour into working-class towns, then sneered when Americans noticed their communities changing in real time. Trump’s 2024 line hit because it captured the whole absurd collapse: They are eating the dogs, they are eating the cats, they are eating the pets!—and the elites still demand silence. Keshel is right: target the winnable Michigan and Ohio races, fix rotten election laws, and stop letting weak Republicans waste the battlefield. America First means survival here.
The Industrial Midwest is Trump country because Trump says out loud what the ruling-class machine wants memory-holed. They shipped away the jobs, opened the border, let fentanyl and chaos pour into working-class towns, then sneered when Americans noticed their communities changing in real time. Trump’s 2024 line hit because it captured the whole absurd collapse: They are eating the dogs, they are eating the cats, they are eating the pets!—and the elites still demand silence. Keshel is right: target the winnable Michigan and Ohio races, fix rotten election laws, and stop letting weak Republicans waste the battlefield. America First means survival here.
And will ensure a red MI for years to come…
Obama turned Blue WV into Red WV. Of course it had been heading that way since Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. But Obama locked it in.