You missed important trends:
The tech revolution that automated manufacturing jobs.
The US manufactures more goods with fewer workers
GWBush was president for 8 years, and did nothing to sustain the transition that the workforce needs to make.
White rural culture is ill adapted to the modern economy that requires tolerance and connectivity. The rural economy sucks because the whites who live their are intolerant, bully and chase away anyone with modern adaptive ideas. This has little to do with trade. The elephant in the room is automation.
No occupying troops in Iraq:
The comment about a public stance and a private stance in the Wikileaks email is relevant here. Clinton was speaking to voters. It is made as a counter to Trump and Pence criticism that US Troops should have not left Iraq under Obama and to counter claims against her war hawkery.
The Clinton foreign policy is learned from lack of response to Rwanda. Clinton's weakness is a desire to respond militarily when massive civilian casualties are threatened. What good options exist for protecting Aleppo other than a negotiated truce? She is stuck with NoFlyZone. To admit it is not feasible would lead to charges of a FlipFlop and a diversion from the topics her campaign want to dominate the media.
I expect Clinton to push much harder to support institutions that protect children and women's rights. Dictators destroy institutions that protect human rights to eliminate limits on and alternatives to their own power. Movements that overthrow dictators often destroy the remaining functional institutions with the idea that they will rebuild them to their own tastes. This is destabilizing because building credible trusted institutions takes a time. Dictators set the stage for revolutionaries to fail massively. The path to progressive change that causes the least harm to women and children is the support and building of institutions that can stabilize a power transition.
Expect Clinton to increase support for institutions. Expect Clinton to intervene militarily if large populations are threatened (as in preventing another Rwanda)
You missed important trends:
The tech revolution that automated manufacturing jobs.
The US manufactures more goods with fewer workers
GWBush was president for 8 years, and did nothing to sustain the transition that the workforce needs to make.
White rural culture is ill adapted to the modern economy that requires tolerance and connectivity. The rural economy sucks because the whites who live their are intolerant, bully and chase away anyone with modern adaptive ideas. This has little to do with trade. The elephant in the room is automation.
No occupying troops in Iraq:
The comment about a public stance and a private stance in the Wikileaks email is relevant here. Clinton was speaking to voters. It is made as a counter to Trump and Pence criticism that US Troops should have not left Iraq under Obama and to counter claims against her war hawkery.
The Clinton foreign policy is learned from lack of response to Rwanda. Clinton's weakness is a desire to respond militarily when massive civilian casualties are threatened. What good options exist for protecting Aleppo other than a negotiated truce? She is stuck with NoFlyZone. To admit it is not feasible would lead to charges of a FlipFlop and a diversion from the topics her campaign want to dominate the media.
I expect Clinton to push much harder to support institutions that protect children and women's rights. Dictators destroy institutions that protect human rights to eliminate limits on and alternatives to their own power. Movements that overthrow dictators often destroy the remaining functional institutions with the idea that they will rebuild them to their own tastes. This is destabilizing because building credible trusted institutions takes a time. Dictators set the stage for revolutionaries to fail massively. The path to progressive change that causes the least harm to women and children is the support and building of institutions that can stabilize a power transition.
Expect Clinton to increase support for institutions. Expect Clinton to intervene militarily if large populations are threatened (as in preventing another Rwanda)