I read the articles. He’s talking about people who have been displaced because of policies HE backs: open borders & free trade.
Link/source for his support of open borders and free trade?
“Nor does a focus on personal responsibility mean that the government or cultural elite are blameless. Far from it, and I’ve written at length about the role of progressive culture and progressive policies in cultural decline. I loathe the progressive welfare state and the elitist sexual revolutionaries who do all they can to create a culture that is simultaneously dependent and self-indulgent. I hate the mockery that poor and working-class people of all races endure, but we live in a nation of mutual responsibilities, and the failure of the government does not require the failure of the citizen.”
Read it again. He’s talking about people who have given up, are collecting disability fraudulently, collecting unemployment and/or not looking for a job because it takes effort, are horrible role models and take no interest in their kids.
Doesn’t look like an open borders guy to me.