Conn Selmer, of Eastlake, Ohio, is America's biggest manufacturer of band instruments. Its owner, John Paulson, stood with Trump and helped him raise over $50 million. He even echoed Trump's false promises about putting America first, saying, "We can't have American producers closing American factories and offshoring. We need to protect American jobs and protect American manufacturing."
The gentle reader can probably already see where this is heading. Conn Selmer recently met with its employees and informed them that the plant is closing and their jobs are being shipped overseas to China. The employees, who are members of the UAW, tried to hold rallies with local officials, launch a social media campaign, and circulate an online petition asking Trump to intervene, but to no avail.
Even a Republican officer for the region, John Plecnik, recognized that the move was bad for Republicans, stating that Trump had run on putting American jobs first. If they don't keep that promise, people aren't going to vote for them again.
Unbelievably, out of the six people who spoke to Reuters and had voted for Trump, five of them said that they would probably still vote Republican in the fall. The sixth person said that she would probably just sit out of the election.
I take no joy in people losing their jobs. But if they are going to be foolish enough to keep voting against their own best interest, especially when their union was warning them, I can't muster up any sympathy for them as the leopards eat their faces.
