I don’t think race has anything to do with that motive. It’s when you could graduate high school get a good job in manufacturing construction the trades and buy a new car and a house and you didn’t need two incomes and you worked 9-5 and didn’t need a side hustle or to learn coding. My dad got back from Vietnam bought a house worked non degree jobs. We had new cars. Mom stayed home. I went to private catholic. Hell it carried through to my own gen. Our high school keeper was outstanding. 6’4. Meaner than shit. Fearless. Great technique. D1 schollies everywhere. But he knocked up a chick end of junior year. Girl’s dad worked at Chrysler. So he skipped college and worked on the line at Chrysler.
@manichi will laugh at this but he became what we call south county hoosier rich. $350k siding McMansion. Boat they tow to the ozarks every weekend in the summer. Always drove a late model jeep. That’s maga. The soco hooz is maga. And they used to be Dems. That’s the American dream. But now Chrysler left. There’s 5 million sq ft of vacancy in its stead. A wagoneer is a 100k and that house is $850k. And the Dems talk nonstop about race and tranny rights. They left the workers that were the meat of the country. They are maga. And they don’t Identify with McCain Romney etc. they’re old blue collar Dems.
And I agree with you that there is no going back. Trump is just pandering. Tapped into a good angle. I manufacture overseas. We could never do what we do here. And there are a million other us little companies like us