Why hasn't Trump intervened in the UAW strike?

It's an easy win if there ever was one

President Trump.
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It can be difficult to notice at times amid the unrelenting tedium of having to pretend to take notice or have opinions about what Adam Schiff said in response to what Donald Trump tweeted after Nancy Pelosi said something related to what Rudy Giuliani did in a minor Eurasian republic months ago, but there are actual problems facing millions of Americans. Unemployment, the cost of health care, drug addiction, widespread mental illness, gun violence — you know, stuff members of both of our major political parties very occasionally pretend to be interested in.

Even harder is remembering that once upon a time, Trump was elected president precisely because he talked about all of these things. Jobs disappearing to Mexico and China, factories closing, generations being impoverished and immiserated, epidemic drug abuse and other problems that will not be solved overnight even if the jobs suddenly all come back and wages increase drastically.

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Matthew Walther

Matthew Walther is a national correspondent at The Week. His work has also appeared in First Things, The Spectator of London, The Catholic Herald, National Review, and other publications. He is currently writing a biography of the Rev. Montague Summers. He is also a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.