Why “make Hollywood great again” logical

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It was always about manufacturing. Donald Trump talks about the re -production lines to the Middle West because many unstable economists are the most open to his message, and the workers of the factory were in ancient industrial cities.

But last week, the president began talking about customs tariffs, not on steel, but on foreign manufacturers. He now wants to “make Hollywood great again” by pushing companies to produce more films in the United States.

At first glance, the idea of ​​cinema it needs to protect. America is the best source of films in the world. The majority of Hollywood revenues come from the external masses that reach American movement, excitement and animated films. Films are a large part of the American soft power. Looking at all this, the protection of the customs tariffs of Hollywood prompted the usual suspicion of liberals (and many conservatives) who believe that most of what the president does is nuts.

They are wrong. Like many Trump ideas, the idea may be economically defective, but it is smart. Hollywood is a large union city and close to Orange County, and it is a hotbed of Maga. Just as steel workers in Pennsylvania and Mechanists in Indiana have been put in a more dangerous situation than China’s shock, Tinsellett is anxious not only about cheap foreign competition, which was transmitting production work from Los Angeles for years, but about job dismantling techniques such as artificial intelligence that will transform the entire business model in industry.

To take advantage of this, Trump provides a usual prescription: You are concerned about the future, I will give you a solution that may not work economically (revenge definitions will not cause little pain abroad while harming Los Angeles) but I will make you feel political care. In the true Conman style, he threw the truth bloc: content, media and coding are zero for a new category of “pre -service” service who worry their future opportunities will be less richer than those in the past.

This is exactly a kind of people who are likely to be seduced by the difficult right. Also, a group of academic research has also shown, while explicit poverty may reduce the support of extremist right -wing populism, voters of the middle class who are concerned about the future tend to withdraw to it, and its wrong promises with better opportunities. This “shrinkage and screaming” tends to be the maximum in the United States, as well as many European countries.

Trump is not the only one who talks about unstable in Hollywood jobs. Gavin Newsom, California Governor, has suggested much more tax credits to industry to try to re-work for middle class workers in cinema-cameras, electrical operators, makeup artists and others who were displaced by their foreign counterparts as production moved to where the work is cheaper, and the audience is larger.

But these jobs are also vulnerable to technology – the best digital equipment means that you do not need that many people run with cameras, and filters can do cosmetics in some cases. What’s more, technological disorder also threatens to work above the creative nutritional chain.

Media, content and coding – all major California industries – are the ones that are disrupted by artificial intelligence quickly. This was at the heart of the work battles in 2023 launched by the Hollywood book and actors. It was not related to confusion and benefits such as how unfinished companies and intellectual property are used such as story ideas or digital images and sounds by companies, the amount of control of things like AI, and how wealth is shared from all this.

The truth about what helps people or harms them economically is not necessarily important here. It is about political optics

Infinitive assets – software, patents, digital data, brands, and other IP – represent about 80 percent of the value on the budgets of major companies. This is logical given that we live in the service economy that increases on digital data. The percentage of wealth that lives in IP will only grow.

Hollywood depends more concrete assets than most sectors. Many actors in films, along with the membership of the Federation (and thus benefits such as health care), have begun, through a few additional waste. But digital images now remove a lot of this work. Many writers are replaced, not just enhanced, by ChatGPT.

The media may be on the front end of the turmoil, but the law and health care are not far. There will be many places throughout the country outside Hollywood, where Trump can develop a larger political base to remove foreigners and automation. I can imagine that it has a ban on foreign radiologists who read X -rays, or aims at the target Large law firms That rents virtual research partners. The truth about what helps people or harms them economically is not necessarily important here. It is about political optics.

Therefore, since Democrats are increasingly buying an “abundant” agenda focusing on organizational reform and not different from new liberal policies in the 1990s, which enhances themselves as a distinguished party, Trump grows a new group of worried workers, this time in services. It is very smart. And problems. While the Maga manufacturing line mainly appeals to a small group of handicrafts in a handful of swinging cases, the services sector represents 79 percent of the American workforce. Indeed unstable policy.

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