It's Juneteenth — a national holiday for which, as we all know, racist Benedict Donald has no use. But Trump's terrible second term is also bad news for Americans who are, um, not of color. Let's see how his policies have affected one of the whitest states in the union, Vermont.
Trump's offensive "51st state" bluster against Canada and his ruinous tariff threats are battering the state from top to bottom.
In Vermont's northernmost counties, businesses that depend on Canadian visitors are seeing their tourist traffic take a nosedive. Only four percent of Quebecers, for example, tell the Canadian Automobile Association that they have plans to vacation in the US this summer. That's down from 12 percent who said they'd visit last year — back when Joe Biden, a sane person who didn't insult them, was President.
In the south, sportswear and outdoor gear retailer Orvis, based in Manchester Center, just announced they're laying off at least 50 employees in the coming months. "Tariffs disrupted our business model in ways we haven’t faced before," the company's president said. Why? Because so much of Orvis's clothes and other products are made in Asia. (We cats have noticed this because our humans are big Orvis fans.)
It makes you wonder what Republican Governor Phil Scott is going to do about all this. Vermonters should ask him. Even though Scott has said for years that he wouldn't vote for Trump, that doesn't let him off the hook. We cats HISS.
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