During WWII jobs were plentiful; restaurants and theaters in Detroit stayed open overnight to accommodate workers in defense plants that never closed (there were 3 8-hour shifts always going on). Today a lot of people simply can’t maintain a decent standard of living with the jobs available to them. We have some high-paying jobs, but far too many McJobs - and too many people lack the skills for the former. In fifty years it won’t be so depressing, as there will be few around who remember the “before-times”, but for now many people look at the standard of living just a couple of decades ago and realize they’ll never attain it.
I’ve posted on other threads that anyone earning $50K or more is dealing with forces scrambling furiously behind the scenes to either move that work elsewhere or bring foreigners here to do it; here in the NYC metro area Asians are being imported as white-collar replacements for Americans in the financial sector in the same manner as they were for the tech sector - and in many cases each new Asian means another American losing his home.
THAT is why Trump was elected - and why his numbers are improving despite 24/7 attacks from the enemedia. He speaks to those Americans who are one foreigner away from taking a walk in front of a train.
And yet today, he expressed support for a law to protect "dreamers" (ILLEGAL foreigners who are taking American jobs.)