This is the kind of place that made America great. It’s a place where bungalows sell for as little as $100,000, complete with azaleas at the door; where American toolmakers still produce Made-in-America tools; and where a big chunk of the population believes Donald Trump really can make America great again.
This is Kenosha, Wisconsin, one of a handful of rust belt counties that tilted toward Mr Trump last November, and gave the president his startling victory. And now he’s back in the working-class heart of his America, with his 100th day in office on the horizon, to trumpet his progress toward #MAGA — the gagging Twitter acronym for his most famous campaign mantra: Make America Great Again.
He has come to Snap-on, which designs and makes high-end tools, to slip under the 100-day wire with a new executive order aimed at delivering on the cornerstone promise of his campaign: that places like this — where factories have been closing and livelihoods declining for decades due to globalisation (among other things) — will be rebuilt through the simple credo of “Buy American/Hire American”.