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Was Joe Kennedy right about Trump's policies?

I don't think you have been keeping up with the issues. That was Hillary Clinton's position, not Trump's or any other Republican.

Clinton has a $30 billion plan to help coal miners, but it got buried by a silly ?gaffe" - Vox

Trump's position was that they keep doing the same things they were doing in the 1950s.
There were plenty of Republicans that were advocating for retooled American education and higher ed programs for the new economy.

I'll have to look for it, but the Jeb Bush campaign had some excellent documentation printed up somewhere about where they would have liked to take it. They happened to be the most policy-oriented campaign during the primary (Rubio was a distant second or third).

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Oh, I forgot. There was something Kasich was right to point out. Kasich wanted to rework the bureaucracy of retraining and rehabilitation programs. He was not happy with counselors or case workers taking a guy who was a middle man or a technically skilled worker and funneling them into the first job they could get them--which tended to be a low-end job somewhere. This kind of tended to be (and still is) a big problem in these kind of programs.

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I could see Joe as a running mate for a more experienced candidate, but certainly not the top of the ticket unless Dems just want to look like desperate senile out-of-touch old farts...
 
There were plenty of Republicans that were advocating for retooled American education and higher ed programs for the new economy.

I'll have to look for it, but the Jeb Bush campaign had some excellent documentation printed up somewhere about where they would have liked to take it. They happened to be the most policy-oriented campaign during the primary (Rubio was a distant second or third).

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OK. But the voters, especially those whom these policies were supposed to be about, wanted no part of it. They just voted for someone who was going to keep them mining coal and manufacturing cars 1950s style. They thought that was what was going to make America great again.
 
OK. But the voters, especially those whom these policies were supposed to be about, wanted no part of it. They just voted for someone who was going to keep them mining coal and manufacturing cars 1950s style. They thought that was what was going to make America great again.
Some of them, yeah. Theres been stories about that in target zones like the rust belt, West Virginia or Kentucky, some (very small) in North Dakota. However, in other energy-centric states that's not exactly the conversation. Even in Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, or Texas, it's largely about non-coal jobs that are on the incline. Sometimes that includes clean energy as well.

Sure, some of these things run into conflict with the administration's internal rule changes and the recently-supplied tariffs, but often not.

I think it's a wee bit of a stereotype at this point that it's all about jobs from bygone eras like traditional manufacturing and coal mining.

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Your claim is at odds with your positions, however convoluted.
A new lean designation of "Trump" would be greatly desired on this forum. ;)

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