I was tagged many times on Twitter last night when Biden told us to stop using the term Rust Belt during the State of the Union. As he prefaced it with a nod to Senator Sherrod Brown, I was not surprised to hear what was going to come next . Sherrod, who is the best, has been banging the “no Rust Belt” drum for ages. I actually had a friendly debate with him on this topic back in 2016.
I’ve written about the term many times, including in the introduction to this book (excerpted here), so I won’t rehearse my stance on this too much. But it was pretty funny to get this text from my son last night:
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