Since President Trump had a rally yesterday in Central Pennsylvania, there were a number of columns from pundits on the state of the 2020 race in PA. On the one hand, the pro-GOP pundits pointed to the economic revival of Pennsylvania under Trump. Under Obama, the state lost over 50,000 manufacturing jobs; while under Trump those jobs began coming back (like 7000). Under Obama, the overall unemployment rate in PA was over 6%. Under Trump, it has hit an all time low of 3.9%. Under Obama, the coal industry was disappearing. Under Trump, that has reversed. Under Obama, the future of the new natural gas industry was iffy at best. Under Trump, PA is now the second largest producer of natural gas in the country and output keeps soaring. Overall, the economic status of the average Pennsylvanian is far far better than it was under Obama.
Those are hard statistics with which to argue. Add in that ISIS has been defeated, a new trade treaty has been reached with Canada and Mexico, and a whole host of other accomplishments, and the GOP pundits say Trump will win Pennsylvania again.
On the other hand, the liberal pundits say literally that Trump will have a hard time overcoming his "racist" policies so as to attract enough PA voters to gain a win. I've now read three different columns that use this as the topic sentence. It must have been today's talking point issued by the DNC. Strangely, though, none of these columns mention any racist policies followed by the Trump administration, not a single one. In the past, the pundits usually point to what they call the "Muslim ban" as racist. Of course, there is no Muslim ban; countries that are home to 85% of the worlds Muslims were unaffected, but reality doesn't seem to be relevant to these pundits. For a while, these same pundits used to say that there was no crisis at the border, so a call for a wall was racist. Of course now everyone concedes that there is a crisis at the border, so that can't be the basis for charges of racism. Indeed, it seems that the liberal pundits have nothing they can point to; they just say Trump is racist and expect that to stick.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I believe that the average Pennsylvanian like the average American already understands that when the Democrats and the media call someone racist, it doesn't mean that person is actually a racist. It only means that the Dems don't like the person and that they want to smear him or her. As has often been said; if everything is racist, then nothing is racist.
It would be nice to think that the left could actually run on policy positions. Of course, they can't do that because they would get crushed in the election. Instead, they just keep going with constant dishonesty.
Those are hard statistics with which to argue. Add in that ISIS has been defeated, a new trade treaty has been reached with Canada and Mexico, and a whole host of other accomplishments, and the GOP pundits say Trump will win Pennsylvania again.
On the other hand, the liberal pundits say literally that Trump will have a hard time overcoming his "racist" policies so as to attract enough PA voters to gain a win. I've now read three different columns that use this as the topic sentence. It must have been today's talking point issued by the DNC. Strangely, though, none of these columns mention any racist policies followed by the Trump administration, not a single one. In the past, the pundits usually point to what they call the "Muslim ban" as racist. Of course, there is no Muslim ban; countries that are home to 85% of the worlds Muslims were unaffected, but reality doesn't seem to be relevant to these pundits. For a while, these same pundits used to say that there was no crisis at the border, so a call for a wall was racist. Of course now everyone concedes that there is a crisis at the border, so that can't be the basis for charges of racism. Indeed, it seems that the liberal pundits have nothing they can point to; they just say Trump is racist and expect that to stick.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I believe that the average Pennsylvanian like the average American already understands that when the Democrats and the media call someone racist, it doesn't mean that person is actually a racist. It only means that the Dems don't like the person and that they want to smear him or her. As has often been said; if everything is racist, then nothing is racist.
It would be nice to think that the left could actually run on policy positions. Of course, they can't do that because they would get crushed in the election. Instead, they just keep going with constant dishonesty.
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