Ordinarily, this is the point where a Democrat would start laying out his plans to reverse this disaster—a public works program, an end to the exodus of manufacturing, and so on. But not this Democrat. Instead, using the following words, he told those working people that nothing could be done for them: “So yes, the world has changed. The competition for jobs is real.” What has happened to working people was simply “real.” It was reality. What you do about reality is you get used to it.
