Just commented in NYT on story about Lordstown Ohio plant closing.

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12. Quote about Trump

"Mr. Marsh voted for him, as did a majority of voters in Trumbull County, a small square on the map of northeast Ohio that hadn’t voted for a Republican for president since 1972."

I agree with Sharon that many of these people are thinking they can bring back the past. It's just not going to happen the way they want it to. This has been going on since the early 80's. My roots run deep in Ohio. My entire family were always union supporting Democrats. One of my sisters still lives near Lordstown and she tells me that she feels these people need to live in the reality of today. We were told this over and over again about how technology was going to cause an uproar in the job market in Ohio all the way back to the 80's. Many people took the warning to heart and did one of two things. They became educated so they would have a fall back career and/or they left the state and went to where ever the jobs were. I started college in 1981 as a 31 year old wife and mother of two elementary aged children. My husband of the time, who had a long career in the auto industry found a job in the South. We picked up our family and moved. It was not an easy choice but you do what you have to do. That was many years ago now and here we are with another generation of people acting gobsmacked that a corporation would do that to them.

Automation is here to stay. Oh, and I've seen all the red MAGAT hats in the Lordstown area, so it's really hard for me to have any empathy and sympathy for them.