Doug Saunders' nostalgia for a pre-Trump era

If you’re a regular Globe and Mail reader you’re no doubt well acquainted with Saunders’ opinions re: POTUS 45. In Doug’s world, 240 years of peace and freedom and progress vanished on the morning of January 20 into a massive flush heard ’round the world. 

Doug’s become a little obsessive about warning us of the dangers of Trump, to the point where he’s reluctant to allow facts to get in the way of his obsession. Obviously, everything was better with Obama, whether it actually was or not. Or with Bush, or Clinton… and it goes without saying that America would be better off today if we had Hillary reading the teleprompter instead of Trump having unsupervised access to Twitter.

While we may never know what might have been, we should be able to agree on the historical record. Therefore I decided to do a little research after my bullshit detector spun a bearing as I was reading about the “Obama-era manufacturing renaissance in the United States…”

What? There was an Obama era renaissance of manufacturing in the US? How did I miss that?

In actual fact, there was a net loss of some 300,000 US manufacturing jobs during Obama’s tenure. Don’t take my word for it; here’s the Washington Post weighing in on the matter.

Enough with the fake news already, Doug!