Comment by a_humean

Except to be fair to the Dems and the Clinton campaign, they did have proposals and white papers addressing exactly these communities. For example, a proposal to invest $30 billion into coal mining communities within the Appalachia regions with promises for infrastructure investment and private business investment, and retraining former and current miners into new skilled occupations. Of course all of this pales in comparison to Clinton's emails, while Trump's incoherent economic message of howling pain to reopen all the mining operations gets all the air time it needs.