MonkeysUncleByMarriage posted:Stanky using smoke and mirrors doesn't address the crux of the argument. Trump promised jobs to a certain sect of workers in a field where those jobs are not coming back (a fact admitted by titans of the industry) regardless of the deregulation. Why can you not follow along?
Trump is a mere mortal; I believe the people in coal country know that too. Eight years of total war on coal isn't going to be changed overnight and workers need to feed their families, so many of those workers have left the area. Because Ol'bama EPA rules helped push coal fired plants out of existence and lower steel production has hurt coking coal production as well, it's going to take a good bit of time for mines to hire back in areas that are losing population. More than likely people are going to be replaced by machines and the people who are left will either be too old or infirm or have gone on to other professions.