Nobody can credibly promise to bring the old jobs back; what you can promise - and Mrs. Clinton did - are things like guaranteed health care and higher minimum wages. But working-class whites overwhelmingly voted for politicians who promise to destroy those gains. (Paul Krugman)

Nobody can credibly promise to bring the old jobs back; what you can promise - and Mrs. Clinton did - are things like guaranteed health care and higher minimum wages. But working-class whites overwhelmingly voted for politicians who promise to destroy those gains.

Paul Krugman

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