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It is not now and never was "trailer trash rednecks" who support free trade and globalization. This was always pushed by an unholy alliance of country-club Republican plutocrats and the worst extremist elements of the Democratic Party. The working class in the US has always, always had very strong protectionist leanings, for the simple reason of self-preservation.
The Republicans saw an opportunity to throw their factory workers under the bus and make themselves wealthier than gods, and get rid of those damned pesky labor unions once and for all.
The environmentalist-wacko, rootless-cosmopolitan leftists always wanted to see all those nasty nasty evil factories go away, preferably cease to exist altogether, but if that isn't politically realistic just yet, at least go to China and Mexico, where they can employ poor deserving Third Worlders who have been denied a shot at these jobs by the subhuman redneck union members in Flyover Country, and maybe when China gets rich, it'll increase its nuclear arsenal enough to deter those evil neocons from evil evil evil foreign wars against poor misunderstood Saddam and Osama. Those "buy American" stickers with the little American flags on them always made the anti-American bicoastal leftist crowd want to vomit anyway. Stupid flagwaving white-nigger hicks, what do they know anyway?