White blue collar workers ought to be a natural Republican constituency. However, the party has sold its soul to the New York banking oligarchs and the globalist/secularist multinationalists. The result is unrestricted free trade on whatever we import, while our trading “partners” won’t let our exports into their markets. The multinationals send all our manufacturing jobs to China and then re-import what they produce overseas, and the Chinese steal our intellectual property while denying us access to their markets.
The new conservatism that grows out of yesterday’s loss must be a populist, anti-”free” trade conservatism that appeals to white blue collar workers. In so doing, we can both protect our economy from foreign fraud while peeling off union votes in the rust belt and midwest.
I have tried to explain to union members that are fighting for their big pensions and at the same time wanting to crush business that if business doesn’t make a profit their pension plans won’t make money from their investments. I think some of them thought about it for a minute but it all came back to the fact that the pensions are guaranteed whether the funds made money or not. They just don’t get that is the road to collapse.