People living outside of places like the rust belt might disagree, but I definitely agree. The manufacturing base was getting hollowed out after that, and most of the people in today's rich areas don't realize how cataclysmic it has been for many places. A lot of cities are like ghost towns, filled with houses you can buy for less than $1,000 because the plants shut down and moved to China and the cities were left to rot. And they go "so? Who cares?" But the reality is something was lost when that heartland that was once the core of western power and it's all been globalized away.
Globalization isn't going to last forever. The world is becoming more dangerous because there isn't a superpower to keep it in check anymore, and given how much has been destroyed (including generations of workers), it's not going to be a nice process getting it back.
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