A sad reminder that the MAGA wing of the Republican party continues to be against most anything that can actually help turn around climate change.
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A sad reminder that the MAGA wing of the Republican party continues to be against most anything that can actually help turn around climate change.
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Oakland County is where nearly all the Michigan auto executives live (and nearly all vote Republican). They are pushing the accelerated move to EVs based on market and regulatory conditions worldwide so their companies can stay in business into the future. Pretty amazing that TheDonald chose this particular venue - a fundraiser - to piss on their shoes…
With Michigan being a pretty competitive state, and the unions being largely Democrat, I assume this is his pitch to try to pry some of those union voters away by scaring them about their jobs.
And yeah, decimate. “I do not think this word means what you think it means.”
Blue collar workers in Michigan are not the Blue Wall they once were (just over half ~56% voted for Biden over Trump in 2020, better than what Hillary got at ~53% - but in the good old days, that would have been close to 100%) And they’re <15% of those who are employed in the state now compared to >25% as recently as 1989.
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-increased-share-michigan-union-vote-1545097
https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/unionmembershiphistorical_michigan_table.htm