Don’t let US become Detroit

Pop star Lizzo handed the Trump campaign a gift last week while speaking at a rally supporting Vice President Kamala Harris in Detroit, Michigan.

“I’m so proud to be from Detroit,” the singer said. “They say if Kamala Harris wins, the whole country will be like Detroit. Proud, like Detroit. Resilient like Detroit. The same Detroit that innovated the auto industry and the music industry. Put some respect on Detroit’s name.”

I am not here to trash Detroit. I live in Toledo, Ohio, 50 miles south of the “Big D,” and will always have a soft spot for the history and people of what was once one of the United States’s greatest cities. Detroit was, and in some ways still is, the beating heart of the auto

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