While we are “Waiting for Godot” for national/international media to do any story about what Hillary voters think about our President*, what Trump voters think about his performance remains endlessly, weirdly attractive.
The latest version of this media obsession is The Guardian’s story about some voters in northeast Pennsylvania.
The star of the story is Jeff Fox, a 58-year-old white presumably Christian male.
Who literally has no clue.
The alleged rationale for this story is that Northampton County voted for Obama twice, and then for Trump.
But Fox and his wife are Fox “News” Republicans -- he supported Carly Fiorina, she liked Ben Carson, before they both jumped on the Trump bandwagon. They are obviously not representative of the county’s move to the Republican presidential candidate in 2016.
A minor part of the story deals with laid-off-forever female textile workers who are mostly Democrats, but there is no indication that they were the Obama-to-Trump voters who made a small bit of difference in this little corner of the election map.
And then there’s Fox’s personal situation — he’s a jobless cancer survivor who’s on Social Security disability. No mention of his wife’s employment, but apparently whatever it is didn’t help much with his medical bills — he’s $40K in debt from them.
And yet, incongruously, the story ends with him saying, “It’s not the responsibility of the government to pay the bills.”
This Republican, Fox “News”-watching, hate-radio-listening, Trump lover says that, while using his SSDI from the government to pay off his medical debt.
There will be countless more personifications of utter cluelessness coming soon — Trump cultists who lose their health insurance, disability payments, decent jobs, etc., due to Republican policies designed to screw the 99 percent.
Hopefully the national/international media will cover those stories better than The Guardian did with this one.