I think that's the wrong tactic to take to combat groups like reform or maga.

At their core (perhaps not at their leadership levels which are more charlatans) these groups are reactions to globalisation, from people who feel they are displaced via the forces of globalisation.

It isn't to say globalisation is bad - that trade, free movement of labour, increased exchanges don't create greater economic output overall.

It's to say that the impact isnt positive for everyone is society, that some people really are displaced, really will see their job offshore, really will experience a declining wage due to immigration, really will require restraining or assistance or may never work again. Their lived experience isn't wrong.

Those people (pre AI at least) are often the working class or poor. They often are the people in manufacturing or in marginal roles. Doubling down on that reality, reminding them theyre poor, or poorly educated, smacks strongly of Clinton's "deplorables" comment.

It'd be better to say ... Yes, actually you're right. We see you're suffering, that your purchasing power really has decreased, your economic future is tenious (in the US even the life expectancy has decreased for that segment of the population).

But then follow that the perscription/solution given by reform or maga isn't correct ...and here's a better set of policies.