More important, he didn’t let a few bullies take his passion. That’s what made him Cleveland. That’s what it meant to live and work in the Rust Belt, and that’s the thing that Trump got wrong about us. He didn’t see our resilience, and he boiled us down to our worst parts. He viewed industrial workers as a down-and-out people, and he let us believe that being down-and-out was our only identity. He offered us scapegoats and outrage to mask our anxieties, which blinded us to the fact that he was just another rich, powerful man who wanted to gain more power on our backs. He fed us vengeance, and
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