Chris Hedges: Forgotten Victims of America's Class War

Once the jobs left and Democrats abandoned working men and women, people became desperate in the author's hometown in Maine — as in tens of thousands of white, rural enclaves across the country.



By Chris Hedges
in Mechanic Falls, Maine
Original to ScheerPost
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