They continue to believe that he is going to magically restore yesteryears labor intensive jobs. The root cause of the loss of rote industrial jobs is automation. This accounts for the loss of 85% of manufacturing jobs. Only 13% were lost to outsourcing. The remaining 8% were lost to unwanted or replaced products. The job market has undergone a radical change and it is not going back. Fifty years ago, for example General Motors was the biggest employer and the average worker earned $30.00 in 2016 dollars. Today the largest employer is Walmart in which the average worker is paid $8.00 per hour. The less educated are not marketable and the highest paid jobs go to the better educated.
If Trump was truthful, he would tell these people they have one and only avenue to escape their plight, get educated and retrain. Of course, he is not about to propose this because his con job that got him elected would be discredited. The industrial age that provided millions of labor intensive jobs is a thing of the past. The situation is analogous to the effects of the Industrial Revolution that came into swing following the Civil War. During this period approximately 65 % of people earned their livelihood through framing. As the Industrial Revolution intensified by 1900 only 38% did so and steadily declined to only 2% today. The same phenomena of the super rich that era produced is being repeated today. The massive changes that took place during the Industrial Revolution are now beginning with the Information Age and will present a massive adjustment that is difficult to predict.
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