Eric Heimel News Today

Once the jobs left and Democrats abandoned working men and women, people became desperate in the author's hometown in Maine — as in tens of thousands of white, rural enclaves across the country. By Chris Hedges in Mechanic Falls, Maine Original to ScheerPost I am sitting in Eric Heimel’s b

Main Street America – by Mr. Fish By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost MECHANIC FALLS, Maine – I am sitting in Eric Heimel’s barbershop in the center of Mechanic Falls. Russ Day, who was the owner for 52 years before he sold it to Eric, cut my hair as a boy. The shop looks the same. The mounted trout on the walls. The worn linoleum floor. The 1956 Emil J. Paidar barber chair. The two American flags on the wall flanking the oval mirror. The plaque that reads: “If a Man is Alone In the...