pstarr wrote:Trump lives in New York City and sees decline everywhere. Yet his base, the Republican party is strong in suburban or rural white America. Trump's promises will go nowhere.
In farm country, a bit of oil sprayed on the gravel road is adequate infrastructure improvement. In suburban white America the roads are just fine. They are only a few decades old.
Trump's constituency doesn't understand their connection to world trade goes right through the cities. Goods from China and elsewhere must be shipped via the crumbling cities. Those tractor parts won't arrive if the ports are dark or burning.
Folks from cities tend to forget, if those tractor parts don't make it to the farm the food doesn't make it to the city either.
Plus in the good old USA we can ship stuff by land from ports in Mexico or Canada if the rioters burn down all the ports in the US. Also there are a heck of a lot of ports that never even occur to the Los Ageles/NYC crowd. Rochester, New York, Toledo, Chicago, Saint Louis all get lots of shipping in and out but are so far below the radar as to be stealthy invisible.