I'd like to know what some soybean farmers or Harley Davidson workers think of this premise.
Seems out of date, doesn't jive at all with what I've heard personally from farmers. Which, incidentally
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-farmers-rising-suicide-rates-plummeting-incomes/
"The farm crisis was so bad, there was a terrible outbreak of suicide and depression," said Jennifer Fahy, communications director with Farm Aid, a group founded in 1985 that advocates for farmers. Today, she said, "I think it's actually worse."
When it comes to manufacturing, well people wan to cling to what looks and sounds good.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/manufacturing-jobs-are-never-coming-back/
"There’s no mystery why candidates love to focus on manufacturing and trade. The U.S. economy faces deep structural challenges — stagnant wages, rising inequality, falling employment rates among men and other groups — and China presents an easy scapegoat. (Wall Street often plays a similar role, especially on the Democratic side.) And manufacturing in particular embodies something that seems to be disappearing in today’s economy: jobs with decent pay and benefits available to workers without a college degree. The average factory worker earns
more than $25 an hour before overtime; the typical retail worker makes less than $18 an hour.
But those factory photo ops ignore an important reality: In 1994 there were 3.5 million more Americans working in manufacturing than in retail. Today, those numbers have
almost exactly reversed, and the gap is widening. More than
80 percent of all private jobs are now in the service sector."
Republicans need to accept we have a service based economy, and no amount of photo ops with Dump looking infantile in a hard hat is going to change that.