>>> Americans have been hurt for 50 years

>> No they haven't. They've benefitted from it.

> Saying Americans haven’t been hurt they’ve benefited applies to white collar workers only - no change to jobs and cheaper goods.

And that's a big reason why Trump won: white collar workers, like the GP, lecturing blue collar workers, while being ignorant of their actual situation.

And what Trump has been doing does not actually serve blue collar workers. Republican policies don't serve blue collar workers in general: anti union policies, for one. Republican policies serve billionaires and make no attempts to hide this, but they win blue collar votes from foolish people who believe culture war narratives matter. The culture war was invented to distract from class war waged by billionaires against the working class, hello.

You've just repeated the Democratic party line, designed to cover their ass for their inaction and inattention. Democrats will lecture the blue collar working class to not believe their lying eyes and trust the Democrats, then lecture them on how they have to because Republicans are so much worse.

It's a dumb strategy, and it isn't working anymore.

Plenty of white collar jobs have moved overseas e.g. IT, marketing, call centres. Especially with remote work.

The point is that as a country it has adapted by people moving into industries that aren't able to be easily outsourced.

The US today produces more steel than it ever has in its history, with ~1/10th of its peak workforce.

Those jobs aren't coming back.