'Trump policies are killing all of us,” read a sign on Pat Russo’s car."
However when we lived in Macungie in the 1980s actual Nazis rallied at a farm. Their leader was arrested later in Philly.
MACUNGIE is a Native American word loosely translated:
Where the bear sleeps in the swamp.
In 1987 we moved to Trappe, PA. I worked at a crown & bridge dental laboratory in Elkins Park PA.
A man who lived on a farm near Macungie did our partial denture work. He had several foster children. My boss, Tom Cassidy asked him, “Why don’t you have Black foster children.” His answer was something like “The people out here are very nice, except I think they might kill black children.”
What I’m trying to say is Allentown is Democratic, The area outside of Allentown is more conservative and more likely Republican.
Those conservative folks are saying things like this:
'We feel his failure, he’s responsible for the deaths,' she said. 'I hope people pay attention.'
When you go over South Mountain from the Delaware Valley to the Lehigh Valley it's almost like going to a different country.
All of Lehigh Valley residents, Democrats or Republicans are more conservative than the residents of counties in the Delaware Valley surrounding Philly.
There’s a culture shock for people from the Delaware Valley moving to the Lehigh Valley.
I ate hotdogs from Yooco’s (Lee Iacocca was a member of Allentown’s Iacocca family)
There were usually long lines waiting at Yooco’s. If you tried to but they refused to serve you.
Drivers in Allentown stop for stop signs, frustrating the crap out of people that live near Philly. In Philly people that stop for stop signs are stuck there while the rest run through the stop signs.
There’s a respect for the rule of law that maybe comes from Mennonite heritage or something. I liked that when I lived there. I didn’t agree with everyone but I did appreciate the respect the people of Allentown showed to others.
The GOP has a maniacal homicidal President problem.
Protestors greeting President Donald Trump Thursday on his first visit to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley looked a little different as they gathered amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Face masks, both homemade and store bought, were prevalent among the drivers who organized near Lower Macungie Middle School. Participants mainly stayed at or near their cars, which were decorated with signs. A few Pennsylvania State Police vehicles were stationed nearby.
Instead of groups of people, Make the Road Action in Pennsylvania organized the caravan to drive past the Upper Macungie Township distribution center hosting Trump and then head to Lehigh Valley International Airport, where Air Force One is expected to touch down.
The focus of the protest was on Trump and his administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
'I don’t feel that Trump is handling anything well ... especially the COVID-19 (pandemic), his handling of it from the beginning. I think that he doesn’t even acknowledge the fact of all of the people that have died and he’s focusing so much on reopening the country despite what the doctors are saying,' said Kate Middleton of Allentown.
One of the protest signs on a few cars read “Trump Failed 3,943 Pennsylvanians dead from COVID.” Middleton had signs on her car that said Trump’s failure is destroying us and “Biden country.”
'We feel his failure, he’s responsible for the deaths,' she said. 'I hope people pay attention.'
'Trump policies are killing all of us,” read a sign on Pat Russo’s car."
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