Um, when you push all your industries overseas and then let tens of millions of foreigners flood in to take the few jobs left, and THEN you don’t let Don Trump tariff the competition out of the game, well....that will get people going on the idea that maybe the Socialists have a point.
Make America Great Again and socialism will seem rather unnecessary.
Central to MAGA is anti-elite populism.
As the positions of working class and middle-income Americans continue to deteriorate, socialism holds a desperate appeal, like it or not, the same populist appeal that swept America in the late 1800s.
You make a good point.
TV’s Archie Bunker was a factory worker, and a strong anti-communist. That was a realistic portrayal (although the racism part was not).
The middle class has been hollowed out. The factories are gone. Both the D’s and the R’s are responsible. As you noted, Trump is trying to change that. And they’ve fought him every step of the way.