Never forget that Trump was the culmination of 40 years of stagnant wages, widening inequality, corruption, dog-whistle

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6. The worst part of the nation's decline is that 50 years ago...

...any idiot could see what was coming if we didn't get some sort of plan. The post-WWII economy was dominated by the US mostly because we were the only large economy that hadn't been completely smashed. Wartime and post-war planners both knew things wouldn't stay that way forever. By the '60s, Japan had made huge strides in technology, and I don't need to belabor the point by discussing the history of Japanese auto manufacturing in the '80s. But throughout all of this, American business and government leaders did little or nothing. Soon those of us in the Midwest began seeing metastasizing urban wastelands and brownfields, which later became known as the "rust belt".