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Opinion: Why Biden’s pandering trip to the ‘heartland’ is worthwhile - "If recent experience has taught us anything, it’s that 'heartland' voters don’t much care whether politicians undertake policy initiatives that actually help them. They’re far more concerned about whether those politicians pander effectively to their feelings — sometimes their hopes and dreams, but more often their fears and resentments.
"My favorite recent example comes from 2016, when Hillary Clinton was excoriated for being honest about the fact that coal is a dying industry — while saying that she wanted to give direct help to the communities that are already suffering because of its decline. Meanwhile, Donald Trump told West Virginia voters, 'For those miners, get ready because you’re going to be working your asses off,' to thunderous cheers.
"It was a promise that could never be kept, and anyone with any sense knew it. In 2016, the last year before Trump took office, government data show coal industry employment at just under 52,000, already a tiny number. By the spring of 2021, after he left office, the number was down to under 37,000. Trump did not stop the decline of the coal industry.
"But here’s the politically important part: Voters in coal country didn’t mind that Trump didn’t improve their lives in the way he said he would. They were as devoted to him as ever in 2020, if not more so."
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