re: #63 Anymouse

The War on Coal is coming from inside the house:
thinkprogress.org

Berkeley Energy Group, a coal mining company in Kentucky, announced plans to build the largest solar farm in Appalachia on top of a reclaimed mountaintop coal mine. The solar plant is expected to produce 150MW of electricity.

The company says the project will provide construction jobs to an economically-depressed area. They also say they will use as many of their coal miners as possible to operate the new solar plant (presumably retraining them as necessary).

As I recall, there was a presidential candidate that proposed this very sort of project and retraining, but she was evil or something.

It is all rhetoric & symbolism: The Wall and the Muslim Ban are symbols of our resolve to retain our purity, talk about trade tariffs and import taxes and reinvigorating traditional mining and manufacturing jobs are symbols of our resolve to return to a mythical America of small towns, nickel cokes and hard-working white people.