In this letter I have taken great pains in relating how, from Bill Clinton’s time in office (1994-2000) the Democratic Party has neglected the working class.
Nowhere is the abandonment of the working class clearer than in Mingo County, West Virginia, one the home of longtime Senator Robert Byrd, a 32-year congressional veteran. In 1996 election, Democrats tool 67% of the vote. There were 3 300 coal miners then.
Clinton’s environmental protection agency (EPA) regulations as well as the then new North Atlantic Free Trade Area agreement created a hostile atmosphere against coal emissions.
This does not mean that the use of coal products was completely banned from the United States. Coal was imported from South Africa. In 2024, there were 300 coal miners left.
As Mingo coal miners took disability pensions and early retirement, the county itself became a case study for stress associated diseases and “boasted” as the capital of opioid (pain-killers}.
In 2016 Democrat Hillary Clinton had scolded the easy-going miners. “Go back to school and learn new trades. Coal is not coming back.”
Last week, Democrat Kamala Harris got 13 percent of the vote. Trump swept the county with 67 percent.
Western Virgina is now a Republican strong-hold.
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Government could have stopped both GM and Carrier from migrating abroad by simply refusing to buy GM Motors.
Government gave them incentives to migrate to Mexico where workers earned US$3 a day (compared to US workers at US$35 per hour). Trump has a simple message.
If you go to Mexico, you don’t sell your products in the US.
Kamala said that Trump will take away women’s right to abortion in demand.
When Covid-19 hit, the shortage of masks, Covid tests kits and bandages was widespread because all these were Chinese imports. Please reader, check the fine print on these products to see their origin.
Democrats were becoming ridiculous.
Trump, they said, will not protect the rights of Trans-kids. Sure enough, Trump promised to forbid Trans-kids from cutting off their tails (boys) and girls from taking anti-puberty pills which suppress breast development.
Trump won all sections of the community, 53 percent of all white women, 45 percent of Hispanics and about one 30 percent of black men.
Trump’s supporters must be punished.
The print national media houses such as New York Times, Washington Post, US Today and the television houses such as Cable New Network (CNN) Columbia Broadcasting Service (CBS) and National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) are generally referred to as legacy media.
I am writing five days after the elections and these media houses have come up with one theme: Kamala Harris lost the election because whites are racist and blacks and Hispanics are misogynist.
Among the electors only black women (90 percent) stayed with Kamala while all other groups migrated towards Trump.
As if programmed, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Princeton Brother Professor Eddie Claude, Reverend Al Sharpton and Sister Joy Reid are all in agreement that racism played a major role in Kamala’s defeat.
Various methods are being explored as to the proper punishment. Michelle Obama hinted that men who voted for Trump are voting against their wives.
Some feminist fanatics at Havard seem to have seen the light. They will restrain from free sex with Trumpkin supporters.
A high school teacher in Florida, name Garcia Lopez, has advised students to unfriend their parents if they voted for Trump.
Brother Athony Van Jones (CNN) who is paid a million dollars per year to say bad words about Trump, shed tears.
Black women have been rejected by this overwhelming support for Trump.
He fears that the wicked Trump is going to take away the rights of “Trans-kids.”
Van Jones has a law degree from Princeton. The stupidity of these intellectuals is beyond me. Another intellectual, Sister Professor Kelly Robinson was telling a Congressional Committee that there are five basic genders. Genders are different from sex; she said with a lofty air.
Apart from their weird economic plans, Democrats did not realise how ridiculous their policies were.
“Trump is going to deport illegals and separate children from their parents.” Was the cry.
It escaped their high intellects that sheltering illegal aliens in hotels, providing three meals a day and allowing a prepaid credit car of US$350 per week so illegal immigrants could avail themselves of toiletries and ethnic cuisine, was offensive when war veterans were homeless.
Kamala’s vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz (Minnesota) and Senate leader Chuck Schumer (New York) had to rush to their home constituents and engage in hand-to-hand combat with Trumpkins who were turning their constituencies red (Republican). Schumer was booed in New York.
Self-inflicted wounds.
Despite the euphoria, Democrats have started demonstrations in Seattle, Washington even as we speak.
There, Black Lives Matter, Antifas (Anti-fascists) and Human Rights organisations seem to be finding common ground in Trump’s foreign policy.
Though intuitively against “forever wars” in the Middle East, Trump has laid for himself a trap from which he cannot escape.
His nominee for Secretary of state, senator Marco Rubio is a war monger par excellence who carries the anti-Communist zeal of his Cuban refugee parents.
Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist minster and a member of the pro-Zionist Christian and Jewish Association brings to the table the religious fanaticism which exonerates Israeli genocidal acts.
The pro-genocidal cabal is completed by the entry of another Zionist fanatic, Congresswoman Elize Stefanic.
Stefanic likes to be mistaken for a Jewess, though she is not. She single-handedly scared off presidents of Havard, Columbia and Massachusetts Institute by throwing accusations of antisemitism.
Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is patron of a Jewish charity which supports occupation of Arab lands.
With friends like these Trump needs no enemies.
- Ken Mufuka is a Zimbabwean patriot. He writes from the US. He can be reached at mufukaken @gmail.com
