“Clinging to their Bibles and Guns” Obama
You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration; and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate, and they have not.The full quote is way worse than that—just like any leftist, he makes the false correlation between religion and the kind of hatred that the left is actually about. He blatantly stereotypes, and of course he turns around and makes the conditions he’s describing far worse than his predecessors did.
And it’s not surprising then they get bitter: they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations. …