It’s New Year’s Eve in a tony East Coast suburb.
“Old Shchur must have done well this year,” declares Danko, swirling his cabernet. “He used to serve plonk from Modesto. Now it’s Napa Valley, and the best.”
“You’ve got to admit the economy’s doing well,” replies Romko. “Robust growth, low interest rates, and the Dow is up. Even we Ukes have come up in the world. Globalization is our friend.”
“It’s not floating all boats,” counters Danko. “Look at those miners and steelworkers in the Rust Belt. They’re not even looking for jobs. That’s why they don’t show up in the statistics. They’re getting addicted to opioids, getting divorced and killing themselves. There’s a lot of descendants of our old immigrants there… And guess who they’ll vote for next year.”