Trump's Comments on Education Reveal Ill-Informed Opinion and Insider Dealing—Not Reality

When Donald Trump laid out his “law and order” agenda for reviving America’s inner cities this week, he spoke for 37 minutes from West Bend, Wisconsin, a county seat, population 30,000, with buildings reminiscent of a 1950s postcard—not from Milwaukee City Hall, which lies 40 miles away and where local officials have been facing riots after a black man was killed by police.

That incongruity, the distance between real-world troubles and staged theatrics, with Trump playing the tough guy speaking to communities he won’t actually go near, is typical for the Trump campaign. Trump is now reciting—from a teleprompter—right-wing fantasies and political cliches that bear little relation to the realities of those issues and challenges in real life....
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