I mean, it's not like anyone took her seriously on the protectionism front. She could have highlighted how free trade leads to lower prices for everyone and proposed new government programs to help out the people whose jobs are lost.
They do not want government programs. What they want is to preserve their dignified, hands on jobs as well as the way of life that goes along with it. Telling them to go work at fast food, get welfare, or relocate, will do nothing to soothe the (quite understandable) smoldering resentment at having their dignity stripped from them.
