Dimon right; again.
By Walter Sabo
A few years ago I moved from Manhattan to Shaker Heights Ohio. ?Geraldo Rivera made the same journey for the same reason; our wives went to Shaker High. In our brides’?minds, that’s enough reason to return.
During the period of the Trump Presidency a new phenomenon was sweeping the East and West?coasts: People who did not vote for Trump demonized and?marginalized those who did. ? Life long friendships were ended by anti Trump individuals who merely suspected a friend was pro Trump,?often with little evidence. ? Celebrities?threatened to leave the country if Trump became or remained President. ?They would flee to Canada, without any?consideration of whether or not Canadians wanted?them! ?
At first I would ask anti-Trump people if they had actually voted for Clinton? That question was inevitably met with an icy glare, but no answer. They hadn’t. Anti-Trumpers were seething,?ignited?by their guilt that they assumed Clinton would win therefore making their vote unnecessary. ?What else could explain the fevered emotion against a President—on his FIRST day in office? Trump hadn’t done?anything?to anger Scarlett?Johansson into leading an insurrection mob. But she did. Day one.
Living in Ohio I have spent time with hundreds of Trump voters and learned something?valuable. Trump supporters do?not match the level of passion in their support of the President as do those who hate him. Not even close. The?disparity is stunning.
No Trump voter has threatened! to leave the country if a Democrat wins. No Trump voter has said,?“I hate all Biden voters, I wish they would die.” No Trump voter refuses to befriend a Biden voter just because. Hey, if we’re?friends, we are friends.
Yes, Trump voters go to the polls for him because—of his policies. And?what are those? ?The Ohio parents and workers I know matter-of-factly want Trump first and foremost so they can afford gasoline and heating oil. ?When the price of gas went up, parents had to cut down on?after school?activities, school competitions and distant playdates, they just couldn’t afford the trip. They had to quit second jobs because they couldn't maintain a second car. They just can’t hop on the M-23 bus going to Chelsea Piers.
They don’t care if it’s Trump specifically, they just want cheaper gas—sir can you do that?
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Next, they vote for the candidate who will support safe neighborhoods, cheaper meat, cheaper milk, their kid in the Marines home safe for the holidays, Israel, better schools.?
I learned this while sitting with parents waiting for our kid's dance class and band practice to end. Patient parents proud of their children. They weren’t chanting for Trump or bashing Biden. They just want enough?gas to get home.
I’ve learned that many people who hate Trump voters do so while hopping in an Uber, a taxi, bus or Subway.?They don’t own a car. They buy food for one, not for five people times seven days a week. They don’t have to go to three different food stores to find the cheapest items…they?just hit Food Emporium, ($6.98 a gallon of milk). In Ohio, 2.29 a gallon, Walmart.
Of course there are other issues swirling around Trump and Biden but right now most Ohioans have to pick up their kid at school on time, let that child buy one toy at Dollar Tree, I said one, and hope there?Is enough?spaghetti for dinner.
Jim, a fellow dance dad, is a twenty year member of the United Auto Workers, he could crush me with his thumb. He's the first Dad to show up to pick up his ballerina. He supports Trump. A union man. I asked him how he feels when he hears media pundits calling him a moron, ignorant, all that?
Calmly Jim said, "Remember Walt, I'm a nine year apprentice tradesman, I've got three degrees from Penn State, and I know how to build your car."