You kind of take the same approach with "neoliberals" that you disparage them for with populists. Routinely, you've devolved into acting as if the majority of the board is simply too arrogant or dumb to understand the world and what got us here.
If you think that particular approach has been so damaging as to result in the revolt of the working class against their mor natural allies, do you expect it to be successful here?
Do you not think that your particular level of frustration with us isn't precisely what we've experienced with the American Right for at least 2 decades now?
As to my own personal perspective, I lived through NAFTA as a young teen with an entire family of working class people who worked in manufacturing. You are correct that they all hated NAFTA and what it would mean. What you leave out is that none of them....absolutely zero were willing to admit that American workers might be part of the issue. American workers are also American consumers. None of them think they are the problem when they buy cheap shit from Walmart or Temu. They didn't think that back in 1993 and they don't think it now. They think everyone else should buy American and pay them wages not justified anywhere else in the world for a lesser work ethic and inferior products.
That, my friend, is the American worker. Those are our people. It's unfortunate, but it is true. We simply as a society do not want to work but expect others to compensate us at unreasonable levels while we spend our own money frugally on cheap imports.
When you can figure out a way to square that circle, i know that I will be a lot more open to populism writ large.