The font in the comboxes is too small, even smaller than my attention span.

As you point out, of course, neither major party gives a wrinkled rat’s behind about these folks’ economic interests. Even without globalization, technological change was going to reduce employment in traditional heavy industry. To the limited extent that federal policy could affect the situation, both parties have made it worse.

I don’t think Obama’s gaffe will prove fatal, because people have Hillary’s number, and the lady hoisting a boilermaker won’t fix that. Obama’s finally going after her on her support for the banks’ bankruptcy “reform” and her dissembling about NAFTA.

This foofaraw among the punditocracy would be amusing, were not the likely beneficiary an irritable old seems perfectly fine on foreign policy to the likes of John Bolton.

He is very smooth, but perhaps not smooth enough.