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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
It's not the lack of union outreach, it's the result of Clinton-dominated DNC policy for the last 20 years.
When Trump talked about the terrible trade deals he was speaking directly to union voters in the rust belt, who have seen their support taken for granted by an increasingly more right leaning democratic government that has presided over the systematic destruction of their jobs.
This is such a huge demographic because of the geographic importance of the states they reside in. The GOP is flipping the union base out from under the democrats.
It's a voting block shift.
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Just to jump on this to further my point, the isolationist, protectionist argument Trump kept pounding speaks to iggy_oi's representation of discouraging innovation and efficiency to preserve jobs. This is a message that desperate production and manufacturing unions in the US rust belt are are looking to hear, whether it's true/practical or not.