Thanks for a very well thought out analysis. I fear you are likely spot on.

However roughly 50 years ago a force that would increase our socioeconomic chasm beyond anything experienced before in history appeared. The microchip.

Early microchips like the Intel 4004 (1971) managed to cram over 2200 transistors into their small package. Today's Apple M1 has 16 Billion. This explosion in computing power is directly responsible for an unimaginable shift in virtually every area of our socio-economic fabric.

In short, the conventional relationship between the supply and demand for human labour is being severed as technology increasingly becomes a cost-effective substitute job by job.

The first sign of this problem was in the 1980s when jobs in manufacturing began to migrate from the U.S. to domiciles with a lower cost of labour. Without technology-driven advances in communication, transportation etc. this couldn't have taken place.

Next came the beginning of the migration of highly paid professional jobs. For example, outsourcing technology jobs to places like Bangalore or Belarus where talented programmers cost a small percentage of US wages became the norm for multinational companies.

Fast forward to today and we have AI that can read CT scans, accelerate the human genome project and of course, replace parking lot attendants. Virtually every occupation is in danger.

The end result is an economy that races to eliminate human labour while politicians advocate raising the minimum wage and free college which when accomplished, simply provides more incentive to replace humans.

Neither the Democrats nor Republicans grasp this issue.

Trump doesn't understand it either. However, he did see the impact it was having, appealed to those most affected thus far and said he could fix it. That's the real reason he could win again.

To have any chance at avoiding this fate, Democrats must stop demonizing Trump supporters and realize that we have to stop trying to solve 21st Century problems with 20th Century solutions.