What? Everybody is constantly talking about it. I have heared almost as much about that, compared to the actual technology.

The answer is of course the same as with any other reason people lose jobs and have done so in the past. It really is nothing new. Neither in scale, nor in severity.

Also, every state already has system to deal with that stuff. The hole point of a generalised systems is that you don't have a major political crisis everytime insert <big company or industy> suffers job loses.

That Trump won because of them is an assertion that is made often, but hard to proove or even show good evidence for.