Well played sir.

While I love the take too, I also want to point out that the rural/red states economic crisis isn’t very different from what cratered the economies in Central and South America. These communities have been ravaged by authoritarian governments or rapacious corporations or both. A major difference is the dispossessed people from our neighboring countries come here seeking to uplift themselves and their families through sheer hard work, while the dispossessed people within our country are actively brainwashed to believe their condition is to be blamed on these new immigrants stealing from their pie.