On Monday about 5 pm, we were stuck in traffic in Northville, Michigan. For those not in the Detroit metro area, I 275 northbound has been closed for about 2 months and traffic, especially at rush hour, is brutal on the surrounding roads. Northville is the northwestern edge of Wayne County (Detroit is the county seat) and it’s quite white and republican. 8 Mile Road (yes, that 8 Mile) runs through Northville and is the dividing line between Wayne and Oakland Counties.
So as we were ducking through shopping center parking lots to avoid the back up on Haggerty Road northbound, we saw a truck and a van decked out in American flags and trump signs. We turned right on 8 Mile out of the parking lot, came to the corner of 8 Mile and Haggerty and there were a gaggle of white people holding up trump signs. It seemed a rather young crowd for trump supporters. They weren’t too rambunctious, just jostling their signs up and down a little. But they were ignored by all the cars driving by. Not one horn honk. By the same token, no one yelled anything out of a car window either.
If this is anyone’s idea of a campaign, or a GOTV effort, they are very new to politics. I am not sure what it was supposed to be.