Much of Trumps support comes from former middle class workers who used to make decent wages and now are working for minimum wage. And maybe not even full time. So they are pissed. The good old days are gone and they want them back. That happened because of two things; globalization of factory work and technology. Globalization is not going away and technology will continue to replace ever more workers. Sure this will provide high paying high tech work for some, but for the masses? Very, very unlikely.
---Very very unlikely for two reasons.
One, we're unwilling to enforce fair play in any of these so called "free trade" agreements so we're forced to match crap wages that sweatshop countries pay, which is absolutely impossible for us, and
two because we refuse to make higher education absolutely 100 percent accessible to ALL Americans regardless of their ability to pay, even though such an investment COULD, in due time, re-establish the United States as a high tech manufacturing powerhouse EVEN with automation of much of the assembly process.
I see NOTHING in Trump's plan of action that would change any of that despite his crowing about China and Mexico, and even if I did, whatever he is saying is a bald faced lie because his OWN manufacturing is EXCLUSIVELY from China and Mexico.
