Must read!!-----Don’t Detroit My America - James Dickson

A bunch of people who would never move to the troubled city feigned outrage at Trump’s comment By James Dickson

• Pop quiz: Answer quickly and honestly.
• Do you want your community to be more like Detroit, or less?

Good journalists, if Michigan had them, would have asked that question after Donald Trump’s speech Thursday at the Detroit Economic Club.

• “You wanna know the truth?” Trump told the crowd. “Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president.”

This was Trump’s closing argument to a group of suburban businessmen gathered in the city center: Don’t Detroit My America.
Inside the room, and across Metro Detroit, this was a sentiment recognized as true—even if everybody loves the Tigers. 

There’s a reason Detroit has lost a million people since the 1950s and why suburbanites aren’t flooding back. 

Detroit is not a good city, to put it kindly.
There are less-kind ways to say this. 

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