Trump

The dislike of Trump so dominates the thinking of many democrats that they pay little attention to his policies. The cold war ended with the demise of the Soviet Union in 1990 and the country had time to look around to see what was going on and they discovered globalization. Most people were not familiar with that term until Trump started talking about it a few years before he announced his first bid for the presidency. In 2015 the phrase gained some interest as Trump started complaining about China's unfair trade practices and how he would put a stop to it if elected but it still didn't register with the press because they didn't know what it meant. The people who were mostly effected by China's practices were the millions of hourly employees who lost their jobs as industry moved overseas. They had been experiencing the negative effects of globalization for 30 years but they didn't know what it was called. Trump, as a real estate developer, had a close working knowledge of what the trades people had been subjected to and quickly sized up the opportunity to come to their rescue. Today, Trumps base is largely composed of hourly paid tradesmen who used to be democrats. Trump has been and continues to be the leading voice in the push for reshoring our former manufacturing businesses. Globalization is now underway and there is no going back. Regardless of who is elected, the reigniting of Americas industrial base is alive and growing. This will be an economic boom over the next ten to fifteen years as good paying jobs for high school grads will become common place. In years ahead when looking back this will be Trumps big achievement.