Trump’s Broken Promises

     Back in 2016, while campaigning for president, Donald Trump discovered a useful tactic for drawing the votes of disgruntled blue-collar workers: denouncing the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs and promising to restore them.  At a rally in hard-hit Ohio, he assailed the Democrats and assured his listeners that he would turn the state into a “manufacturing behemoth.”  Speaking in Detroit, he pledged “to restore manufacturing in the United States.”  Addressing a campaign rally in Warren, Michigan, he declared:  “If I’m elected . . . you won’t lose one plant, I promise you that.” […]