All true. But the "alt-right" or "right" or "centre-right" thinkers think why weren't Corporatism, Trade liberalisation and globalisation addressed during the 8 years of Obama's administration?
Because the Left embraced them as economic policies all decades ago. See: Tony Blair in the UK (who followed his lead from Bob Hawke in Oz) and 'New Labor'.
The Democrats, UK Labor and the ALP all support globalisation and corporatisation and capitalist economics. They just also support strong social liberal policies as well to try and protect or lessen the impact of them (welfare, wage protection, public health and education, trade practices and consumer protection legislation etc).
Globilization is inevitable. Plus, the overall benefits of capitalism far outweigh protectionist or centralised economics.
The invisible hand and all that.
Also, aren't Trump's main policies anti-trade liberalisation and globalisation? Yes he is in favour of Corporatism.
He's touted protectionism which in Australia is the purview of the Nationals and One Nation (Clive Palmer was a fan as well from memory). Its a growing trend as a reaction to globilization; shutting up shop and closing the borders not only to migrants, but also to trade. See also: Brexit.
Its insular policies like this (and right wing governments) that tend towards leading to war. In fact, historically they're a precursor to war. In addition to militarization, jingoism and belligerent foreign policy, which are all more of Trumps methods and policies.
It remains to be seen if he's a dangerous populist madman who drinks his own bathwater and actually intends to do half the crazy shit he said he would do, or a brilliant if egotistical reader of the state of play who is just there to feather his own nest and create a legacy.
If 'the left' can learn anything from this, its that there is a sizeable proportion of the working class that feel left behind by the rapid pace of change. Like I said earlier, many of those (the majority) who voted for Trump werent racist KKK, swastika waving loons (althoug to a man those of that crowd that voted, voted for Trump). Most of them were working class and the poor who were afraid of a world that was getting smaller all around them. They watched 'fat-cats' get away with the GFC and housing bubble which cost them their homes, terrorists killing people all round the world and at home, US soliders coming home in body bags in a war none of them understand, and their jobs get taken away while the wealthiest 1 percent got an even bigger slice of the pie.
There are genuine (and percieved) fears and concerns among the poor and working class that arent being listened to.
This is the exact crowd that Howard cottoned on to in order to get into power himself. 'Howards Battlers'. Blue collar workers who felt alienated and left behind. He dangled first home buyer grants (You get a house, you get a house, everybody gets a house!) in front of them, while also locking up boat people. Suddenly they felt like they were getting a piece of the pie that had been promised, and they also felt like the brown people 'jumping the que to get free stuff from the government' were being kept away from that pie.
They jumped ship from Labour to Liberal.
Of course, then Howard tried to foist Workchoices on them. That was a bridge too far, and they quickly turfed him out.
Unions gonna union and all that.