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.
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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.”
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9 comments:
The truth is that it was not just the democrats who bought (or were bought) into globalism, the Republicans also joined in.
President Trump has single handedly reversed the move toward globalism WORLD WIDE.
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS SAVED THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS FROM THE SLOW/STEADY DECLINE INSTIGATED BY BIG BUSINESS AND THE PAID-OFF POLITICIANS!!!
America The Sleeping Giant is Waking up !!! Finally
Hi there, 49 year old exhausted dad with two kids whose factory job is being shipped to China, and whose wife is too tired to make love to you because she also is forced to work a crap job just to make ends meet because we we demand that you pay in taxes for things like NPR, who has been forced to watch his town decay in front of his eyes and watch his friends die from opioid overdoses...
we Democrats just want to remind you that college kids shouldn't have to pay back their loans and you're a bad person because you don't want your son to sit in the lap of some freak transgender drag queen at story time and, oh, by the way, you are an evil person and the source of all of the world's sins because you're white....
and don't forget to vote for Democrats this November!
Now we see who has been ruining our country & being against
us > Real America !!
Time to FIRE & Remove ALL the Democrats throughout America
That is really funny
Good Against BAD & the Good WILL Win !!!! America
2:06 It’s awesome isn’t it? 😉😏
Yes 12:42, I agreed, you are 100% correct
Working Class is most of America & We Control the VOTE !!!!
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