Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Rural America should not be forgotten
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Will Wilkinson/NY Times: Has Trump Handed Democrats an Opening in Red America? The G.O.P. has left soybean fields littered with $20 bills for enterprising Democratic presidential hopefuls to pick Yet the travails of America’s struggling red regions, aAbbreviated Pundit Round-up: Rural America should not be forgotten
Will Wilkinson/NY Times: Has Trump Handed Democrats an Opening in Red America? The G.O.P. has left soybean fields littered with $20 bills for enterprising Democratic presidential hopefuls to pick Yet the travails of America’s struggling red regions, and practical ideas about might be done to alleviate them, are barely mentioned in right-leaning policy circles. For example, “The Once and Future Worker,” a widely discussed book by Oren Cass, a former economic policy adviser to Mitt Romney now at the Manhattan Institute, focuses on initiatives to expand employment and wages for American workers but largely neglects the changing geography of economic output and opportunity behind the woes of heartland workers. Worse, the Republican Party under Mr. Trump has blundered into a positively anti-rural economic agenda, leaving the soybean fields littered with $20 bills for enterprising Democratic presidential hopefuls to pick up. The president’s nativist immigration agenda deprives farms and small factories of workers local economies can’t otherwise supply, while the administration’s latest budget proposal continues the Republican assault on the health care and social insurance programs rural populations increasingly rely on to survive. xHave you noticed that when the president unilaterally directs $16 bn in bailout payments to agricultural interests, no one says: but how will you pay for it?— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 24, 2019 Read more