Trump told coal miners he'd bring back coal, so they're refusing retraining

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@marence

This is one I’m most flabbergasted about. How can they possibly hate immigrants?

That situation is deliberately manufactured by the capitalists.

Is the GOP broken beyond repair?

It’s an unfortunate truth that immigration has, historically, been actively employed to screw over the American working poor. If you look at the history of (for example) copper mining in Montana, you see a repeated wave of the mines being staffed by whoever the latest round of immigrants were. Basically, the mine bosses would employ a group of easy-to-exploit new immigrants up until the point where they’d established themselves and began to organise for labor rights, then they’d sack 'em all an…