Donald Trump professes confusion in response to Hillary's new slogan:
She wants to make America whole again and I’m trying to think what is that all about?Among other things, Donald, it means that when you unjustly or incompetently take people's money, you restore to them what they've lost. Something you've never done.
At the risk of stating the obvious: "make America whole again" is a double entendre* -- and I think a kind of brilliant one. Hillary is going motherly on us (or Bush Sr. on us), talking about restoring love and kindness as core political values. But "make America whole" has a hard financial edge, and speaks to 40 years of one-percenter capture of all the country's productivity growth -- as well as countering Trump's fascist scapegoating of Hispanics and Muslims. At the same time, it's a pitch to the rust belt and the white working class:
