Sounds like reverse racism Gene. "Old white men.."
I can tell you that I sat in a room full of mostly older, mostly white, mostly men and discussed how our large corporation was going to prosper no matter the way the election went.
And then I went and sat in a room with a small group of mostly older, mostly white, mostly men that I call my financial advisors and discussed how I was going to prosper no matter how the election went. And how to game the very destabilizing force that was the election.
At that level, it is a game.
Those coal mining jobs aren't coming back. For a simple reason: coal isn't the future, nor should it be.
Those manufacturing jobs aren't coming back. For a simple reason: your workforce is too expensive for them to. Are you actually going to buy american when you walk into Walmart? No. Why? Because your workforce can't or won't spend the money to buy american.
Which by this point is actually lower quality anyway than the cheaper offshore manufacturing.
A workforce that is increasingly trapped at working in service industries like Walmart and fast food and can't even make ends meet as it is. A workforce that is increasingly trapped by an education system that has not empowered it to be more. A workforce that is increasingly trapped by healthcare costs they cannot afford to pay. An indentured servant class, working for the very corporate big money that they just voted into power. Where the military is actually viewed as a viable career path for the uneducated because they have nowhere else to go. Except from a macroscopic national perspective, you have to realize that the military actually produces nothing. From a bottom line perspective, it is overhead. That increases day by day.
It's a trap. With one way out. By not looking to the past, looking to the future.