Please stop saying Trump turnout is because of jobs or economy.

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8. no, it wasn't about jobs. we've got near-full employment. at most, it was about lies about jobs.

at this point all we're seeing in terms of job loss is fairly normal rotation in a near-full employment economy.

if the unemployment rate were near 10%, sure. but with the unemployment rate below 5%, particularly having come down from around 10% in 8 years of uninterrupted growth, it's ridiculous to believe that people voted against democrats because of our economic performance.

the truth is, if a republican had obama's track record, he'd already have been sainted. nearly tripling the stock market, ffs.

to the extent people voted for trump based on jobs, it was because they were lied into believing that the job situation was far worse than it actually is.

yes, there are mills closing, and jobs lost to automation and to overseas competition. and there are new jobs created in different places and different industries. that's what happens in normal, good times, and again, had obama been a republican, no one would have thought twice about it.


finally, i'll just throw this in as well: lies about jobs are a whole lot easier for trump voters to believe when they're bigots to begin with.