2016 Postmortem

You wrote:

Germany doesn't thrive on bringing back or preventing the departure of low-skilled manufacturing jobs

Manufacturing jobs in Germany (2012) = 19.8% of population

U.S. (2012) = 8.2% - 3.4 million lost since 2002

U.S. (2002) = 10.7%

U.S. (1950s) = 30%

And Germany's manufacturing sector has not declined anywhere near as fast as ours, despite Germany having 3 times more robots

Yet the evidence suggests there is essentially no relationship between the change in manufacturing employment and robot use. Despite the installation of far more robots between 1993 and 2007, Germany lost just 19 percent of its manufacturing jobs between 1996 and 2012 compared to a 33 percent drop in the United States.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2015/04/29/dont-blame-the-robots-for-lost-manufacturing-jobs/amp/?client=safari

Now google how many Americans are still on Trade Adjustemt Assistance

Democrats ignore these facts at their peril. Rust belt flipped red. We'd better start listening to blue dog democrats or it's over