Why Did We Lose And How Can We Win?

[JHan]

65. I agree it would be a tough sell..

... to explain what you described - No politician can realistically say "those jobs aren't coming back" . When Hillary made a speech about coal, her one comment that coal is dead, which is true, is what everyone ran with rather than the rest of her speech which addressed retraining and making the shift to renewables. Whenever Hillary is* frank and to the point, the jist of her point gets lost in translation and drowned in antagonistic spin.

President Obama also raised the challenges in his farewell address: “The next wave of economic dislocations won’t come from overseas,” Mr. Obama said. “It will come from the relentless pace of automation that makes a lot of good, middle-class jobs obsolete.”

The Democrats will have to lead on this, Republican leadership at present is making a retreat to backward PatBuchanan-type old conservative thinking.