Working Class Voters Betrayed by Globalization Turn to Trump’s GOP: ‘Democrats Weren’t Looking Out for Me’

Breitbart ^ | 28 Jan 2020 | JOHN BINDER

[Hojczyk]

Working-class Americans who have been betrayed by globalization of the United States’ economy are turning to President Trump’s economic nationalist Republican Party for support.

A report by the New York Times details the shift among U.S. voters. Trump’s GOP is increasingly made up of the working and lower-middle-class devastated by the free trade policies of 30 years, while Democrats represent affluent suburbia and major cities that have bounced back since the Great Recession.

Shawn Hoskins, for example, of Dayton, Ohio was a staunch Democrat voter until 2012, when he switched parties. Hoskins told the Times he “liked the way things were going” when he worked at General Motors’ (GM) Moraine Assembly plant until his livelihood was upended by GM’s decision to close the plant in 2008:

In a way Mr. Hoskins feels betrayed: In the face of economic insecurity, his loyalty to the union and the Democratic Party did not protect him. And the Republicans were an increasingly attractive alternative. [Emphasis added]

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But at the end of the day, “when it came time for the doors to shut at G.M., the Democrats weren’t looking out for me,” Mr. Hoskins said. “Losing my job opened my eyes. I had to pay attention to other things going on in the world.” [Emphasis added]

For the first time since 1988, a Republican presidential candidate won Montgomery County, Ohio — where Hoskins lives in Dayton. Trump won the county by eight percentage points, committing to throwing out the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade deal, pushing for a national infrastructure plan, and placing tariffs on cheap foreign imports to end decades-long job-killing free trade policies.

[Hojczyk]

Turned to Trump’s GOP.....the RINOS want to go back to the old ways\

If Trumps wins in2020 he needs to change the name of the GOP...

Maybe Trumps grand workers party.. TGWP

[Parmy]

There are some Democrats so afflicted with Stockholm syndrome that they will never change no matter how much the Democrats lie and hurt them.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

... devastated by the free trade policies of 30 years ....

The way I see it, there was nothing "free" about the free trade policies of the past thirty years. It was all a one-way street.

[Tench_Coxe]

These are among the people Don Lemon and Rick Wilson were mocking on CNN.

[fireman15]

“Free trade” has always been a misnomer. Historically the only way to keep our trading partners from screwing us has been to carry a big stick.

[PGalt]

HOORAY Americans! 2020. See.

[mosesdapoet]

I posted this;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3811836/posts#19 which I gave to my GOP committeeman and note his reaction Nothing will change if we don’t expose the perverts

[Lurkinanloomin]

Unfortunately we have not been replacing the Bush League Republicans with Trump Republicans so most of the GOP is still on board with globalization.

[SMARTY]

Right-I have some relatives like that... the union is their god.

Never mind that the union screws them over every chance they get.

[PGalt]

True. Between them, the propagandized, the globalists and the haters of the country...they become a troublesome force.

[OpusatFR]

In England, upper class is anyone with peerage. Peerage can be broke, addled or completely reprehensible, but still titled.

Everyone in the US is working class. It is a distinction without a difference.

The “elites,” whose degrees from Harvard and others allow them to gain entry into politics are not peers of the realm. They may think they are, but they are not. The idea of a political class as some form of nobility needs to be squashed.

I would pit my highly educated albeit non-elite university educated, working class children against the dolts who currently run our country and guess my children would win on sheer wits alone.

[PeterPrinciple]

I would pit my highly educated albeit non-elite university educated, working class children against the dolts who currently run our country and guess my children would win on sheer wits alone.

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We would all win. In hindsight I wish I had been involved in more battles than I did. Encourage your kids to be on more boards and local politics............................

[PGalt]

Thanks for the link, info, your work. BUMP!

[lone star annie]

In Texas the GOP is named the Great Opportunity Party

[PGalt]

Yes. Thanks.

[Reily]

Same here!
I think these days there is far more exploitation of the worker by his protector - the union then there are by the employer.

[Alberta's Child]

The danger the GOP faces in many of these Rust Belt states is that globalization has played a very small role in their economic demise.

As one Midwestern GOP House member noted very astutely at a conference I attended a few months ago ...

"When a company closes a steel mill in Steubenville, Ohio and opens a new one in Arkansas, globalization isn't the problem here."

[DownInFlames]

Neither is the GOPe.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

“The way I see it, there was nothing “free” about the free trade policies of the past thirty years. It was all a one-way street.”

A street with a pipe running underneath, sending money right back from the foreign governments to our electeds, the bureaucrats and their families. The sell us out and become multi-millionaires and billionaires.

It was slavery for our people, every bit as bad as what the Egyptian Pharaohs did to get the Pyramids built.