But on his first day in office, Donald Trump scrapped Biden’s clean energy and environmental programs, which he lambasted as woke, anti-American liberal hoaxes.
The 2022 cash injection came through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Biden’s landmark climate and infrastructure legislation, and was designed to help revitalize and strengthen former coal communities over the long haul.
It was the largest investment in Appalachia since the 1960s’ “war on poverty” under Lyndon Johnson.
but like many blue-collar regions is now part of the loyal Maga base who believed Trump when he pledged to resuscitate coal country and put American first.
Trump has won big in West Virginia in the past three general elections, securing every county in 2024 with an average of 70% of the vote – the highest percentage any party has won in the state’s history. His vote share was even larger in rural counties including Clay and Wayne, which Huntington straddles.
So you’d expect anger at Trump but you’d be wrong !
yet many of those interviewed by the Guardian blame Washington politics generally rather than Trump.
I live in the south. All the Republican voters I meet are either people who think they’re wealthy enough to benefit from Republican tax policies, or (much more commonly) have been taken up by the propaganda machine and genuinely believe that Trump is a good Christian man who cares about the working class and is tirelessly working to Make America Great Again after immigrants and Obama made it not great.
So… the self absorbed and the stupid ?
What’s sad is I’m doing moderately okay I would say on the coast - and I know I am far out of reach of getting any of those tax cuts. They have no idea how much they’re getting duped to think that they’re even remotely close to getting anything.
Newsmax, Fox, and OANN need to be dealt with somehow
mostly fox, newsmax and oann captures the younger crowd.
That’s not really true though. Newsmax and OANN are the really crazy ones, but they’re all ages. Fox is bad but not as bad as the others.