Clinton likely did not consider challenging the advice about the rust belt because she exemplifies the wrong turn the Democratic partyade when they sold out their union base in favour of banking, business and intellectual elites.
There is certainly an argument to be made about "why" the party shifted like that (money. You need money to run a campaign) but ultimately that is the hat happened. Organized labour have seen their numbers and influence decline drastically and it coincides largely with the association of the Clintons with dnc leadership. Obviously the decline was initiated earlier than their arrival but the Clintons have never viewed organized labour as particularly significant or important and it certainly isn't sexy.
The effectiveness of COINTELPRO is a huge player in tbis but so is plain old political greed.
It was Hillary's time to be president and she leveraged every single glad hand, donation and smoky backroom handshake to get herself there, with the average American now forced to pick up the political tab.
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