Boy is that stupid, where were they when the primaries were telling the story of a possible Trump win? America is divided but it was Trump's talk of people, jobs, trade, and outsourcing that stimulated the so called forgotten. Had they helped get out the vote the result may have been different - throwing rocks ain't helping anyone.
You wanna understand why work left and workers have little power, check out these books
'Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal' Kim Phillips-Fein
"Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right" Jane Mayer
'To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party' by Heather Cox Richardson
'The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government' by Mike Lofgren
"There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us." Pogo