Johnstown Never Believed Trump Would Help. They Still Love Him Anyway.

Johnstown Never Believed Trump Would Help. They Still Love Him Anyway.

Cult of personality. “You know, we’re sort of a depressed area,” she said. “We’re just a little area, you know—but it’s a good area. Good people here. And I think he would, if he knew of a place that had a lot of problems, I think he would try to help. I don’t know what he could do, or would want to do, for Johnstown, you know?” He said he was going to bring back the steel mills. “You’re never going to get those steel mills back,” she said. “But he said he was going to,” I said. “Yeah, but how’s he going to bring them back?” “I don’t know,” I said, “but it’s what he said, last year, and people voted for him because of it.” “They always say they want to bring the steel mills back,” Frear said, “but they’re going to have to do a lot of work to bring the steel mills back.” He hasn’t built the wall yet, either. “I don’t care about his wall,” said Frear, 76. “I mean, if he gets his wall—I don’t give a shit, you know? But he has a good idea: Keep ’em out.” He also hasn’t repealed Obamacare. “That’s Congress,” she said. And the drug scourge here continues unabated. “And it’s not going to improve for a long time,” she said, “until people learn, which they won’t.” “But I like him,” Frear reiterated. “Because he does what he says.”