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Forgotten and forlorn, a Massachusetts town finds hope in Donald Trump

Gary Bosworth watches the inauguration ceremony Friday for President Donald Trump at the Toy Town Pub in Winchendon. Bosworth said he did not vote but he supports Trump, "I love it, it's about time." Craig F. Walker / The Boston Globe

By The Boston Globe

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WINCHENDON — At the elbow of the bar, where afternoon regulars with calloused hands gripped $3 longnecks, the consensus was clear in the Toy Town Pub: America needs President Trump’s business smarts.

The country needs Trump’s tell-it-like-it-is bluster because politicians who told us what we wanted to hear got us into this mess. It needs Trump to build that wall along the Mexican border to protect Americans who can’t find jobs.

Most of all, America needs Trump to restore prosperity to forgotten places like Toy Town, the nickname Winchendon acquired a century ago — before the toy industry left.

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