Hypocrisy of the Elected Republicans. A one off election is going to take place in Western Pennsylvania coming Tuesday. This congressional seat opened after Republican Representative Tim Murphy, a staunch anti-abortionist resigned in 2017 amid reports that he asked his mistress to get an abortion when he believed she was pregnant.
Define hypocrisy. A politician and champion of family values, a vocal opponent of abortion has a mistress, impregnates her and asks her for abortion. In a district where Republicans won by a landslide, the current Republican nominee to replace his distressed incumbent is struggling against his Democrat opponent.
Now Hypocrisy of Elected Democrats. Traditionally a party of the working class Americans, they have left their core supporters in wilderness for years. So Donald Trump has announced his tariff against imported Steel well timed to save this seat located in the Steel belt of Western Pennsylvania close to West Virginia. He wants to attract the disenchanted working class Blue collar workers who are part of the Democratic base.
These Steel workers are fast losing jobs due to the dumping of cheaper imported steel. The President of the United Steel Workers Union praised President Trump for trying to do something which the blue eyed boys of the Blue collar workers, the so called Champions called Democrats hardly did anything but rhetorics for last 30 years.
Ronald Reagan was a Democrat before he joined the Republican party. When asked about his decision, the great communicator responded - " I did not leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic party left me".
Democratic party's leaving its base, the blue collar working class American cost them the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin and the Presidency. Trump is just playing to this vulnerability of the Democrats, hoping to reap political harvest at their expense.
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