2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Blacks And Browns Being Led Into Committing Political Hara-kiri - MWCNews [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Reading policy, that is not precisely right. He would like to bring good paying jobs, many of them factory jobs, back to the US. He would like to rebuild the middle class (I hope we can agree this includes AA who were hit disproportionally hard by the Great Recession). Many of these jobs used to be in urban cores and nafta (and the rest) have hit working class AA particularly hard as well.
He speaks often of how there is a need to increase jobs, good jobs to be exact, in African American communities.
I get it if people distrust him, but hey, I have spent hours reading websites...it's my job. And this is a good summary of his position. He is actually horrified, and so am I, by AA unemployment, in particular youth unemployment.
So just putting this here as what is actually in his positions.
By the way, do I think anybody who gets elected will get anything done? Nope, I gave up the fantasy that elections actually matter and change countries. Oh and that includes the Rs by the way. That is for entirely different reasons by the way.