How the dem funded Chevy Volt was going to save (d)etoilet and the U.S. Car Market

[hwytohell]

https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2018/11/27/chevy-volt-donald-trump-general-motors/2120687002/  

[Mainecat]

From your link...

Just ask the American workers who voted for President Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Or take my word for it: I asked them myself, over and over, as a political reporter covering Ohio during that campaign.

Trump promised to bring back jobs, when no one else was willing to. He acted like the economy was struggling, when other politicians (and fact-checking journalists, including this one) touted the low unemployment rate. More than that, he understood the despair workers felt when their new job didn't pay like their old one. The fear they felt when they thought of starting over in their 60s. 

Trump won Michigan thanks in part to those workers. He won Ohio by a landslide for much the same reason. Trumbull County has voted Democratic in almost every election since 1928. In 2016, the county backed Trump.

And now Trumbull County is losing its auto plant. 

That's a problem for Trump. For now, he's channeling anger, the kind of anger workers connected with in 2016. 

"They better damn well open a new plant there very quickly,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal on Monday, referencing the Lordstown, Ohio, factory closure. "I told them, 'You’re playing around with the wrong person.' "

What will happen when the workers are out of a job?

[ActionfigureJoe]

The volt was never meant to save GM. What a load of hogwash. The volt provided GM with technology on hybrid drive systems. It’s far from a failure. It was an excellent test platform.