Sure. But this is a bipartisan feature. Buchanan and Perot were the only sirens warning of free trade, globalization and outsourcing prior to this election as a whole. Trump won on such points. But, the main party handmaidens have not switched their positions.
If ya want to laugh or cry look back at Perots charts from 92. National debt, Nafta, etc. Things have only gotten worse. And when the gop were in charge they failed to handle such problems. These problems, unless fixed soon will ruin US.
That is absolutely correct. It's maddening, because these people weren't all born with a silver spoon cycling from the public trough into their capacious gobs. They should know better. The main character in this story can look at them and say, "I make ball bearings. I'm damn good at it. I make the best ball bearings in the world." And that life has less dignity than a ivy-league-degreed policy wonk's? I don't think so.
I've worked in big companies and small, and one commonality was a rather saccharine insistence that "our people are our number one asset" that in the successful firms was actually taken seriously but in the less successful ones met only lip service. Outsourcing was not kind to the latter.
Trump won on this issue not only because he is correct about it but because he was the only one even addressing it. He won the working class vote because he was the only one even trying. His party's handmaidens gave us a carefully groomed Yeb! Bush with his $75 guacamole bowls and figured that was authenticity enough. You are so very right about that.