How was the deplorables, how is this working classes, this angry working class, how was it created? We had three extinction level events. Number one, The rise of China, the deindustrialization of our country, all the shipping of the jobs to East Asia, the high value added manufacturing jobs. If you read Hillbilly Elegy's the Great Sociological Study of the Trump Deplorables by J.D. vance from Yale, he says there's a direct correlation between the factories that went to China, the jobs that went with them, and the opioid crisis. (06:30–06:40)
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Asserts that the rise of China and job outsourcing to East Asia contributed to U.S. deindustrialization.
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