The declne of the American worker started in 1943

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The article doesn't say the decline started in 1943. It says something like that it started for "workers born in 1943" (ie around 1973).

boomers destroyed the country

The rallies culminated in a large rally on May 20 in which an estimated 150,000 pro-war protesters marched without opposition through the streets of downtown Manhattan.Some workers in surrounding buildings showed their support by showering the marchers with ticker tape.

People have glorified the French Revolution long before the 'alt-right' was even a thing for exactly that reason, when people say we need another French Revolution what they're saying is we need to kill a whole bunch of the elite not that we should rebuild society around radical enlightenment ideas or whatever.



I mean, beheading the king and queen is pretty badass

The Hard Hat Riot occurred on May 8, 1970, in New York City. It started around noon when about 200 construction workers mobilized by the New York State AFL-CIO attacked some 1,000 college and high school students and others who were protesting the May 4 Kent State shootings, the Vietnam War, and the April 30 announcement by President Richard Nixon of the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. The Hard Hat Riot, breaking out first near the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street in Lower Manhattan, soon spilled into New York City Hall, and lasted approximately two hours. More than 70 people, including four policemen, were injured on what became known as "Bloody Friday". Six people were arrested.[1]

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On May 4, 1970, thirteen students were shot, four of them fatally, at Kent State University in Ohio by National Guardsmen as they protested the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and U.S. incursions into Cambodia. As a show of sympathy for the dead students, Republican Mayor of New York City John Lindsay ordered all flags at New York City Hall to be flown at half-staff the same day.

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Shortly after the Kent State shootings, anti-war protesters announced that they would hold a rally near city hall to commemorate the four dead students. Brennan decided to organize a counter-rally of construction workers to show support for the Nixon administration.

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At 7:30 am on May 8, several-hundred anti-war protesters[6] (most of them high school and college students) began holding a memorial at Broad and Wall streets for the four dead students at Kent State.

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At 11:45 am, about 200 construction workers converged on the student rally at Federal Hall from four directions. Nearly all the construction workers carried U.S. flags and signs that read "All the way, USA" and "America, love it or leave it".[9] Their numbers may have been doubled by others who had joined them as they marched toward Federal Hall. A thin and inadequate line of police, who were largely sympathetic to the workers' position, formed to separate the construction workers from the anti-war protesters. At first, the construction workers only pushed but did not break through the police line. After two minutes, however, they broke through the police line and began chasing students through the streets. The workers chose those with the longest hair and beat them with their hard hats and other weapons, including clubs and steel-toe boots. Onlookers reported that the police stood by and did nothing.

... You're using " elites " in this Nixon/Agnew sense here , ASP , which is not the only way one can define the concert/that it has been used .

I am using elites in the Washington Post, New York Times, Harvard, Yale, and Berkley, Hollywood kind of way. There was also a cultural aspect of "I do not recognize my country anymore". Then it was long hair, acid rock and casual sex, today it everything that comes under the diversity label. Back then Nixon and Vice President Agnew exploited the resentments, today it is Trump. The idea that these resentments are manufactured shows a lack of understanding of how marketing works. The resentments have to be there to exploit and enhance. Where I grew up is the type of place the Hard Hat Rioters lived, where "America Love It or Leave It" decals on cars were common. Those guys grew up fighting in WWII when the idea of protesting an ongoing war your country was fighting was inconceivable.

Who says they're manufactured?

This sort of appeal came from George Wallace. At first he used good ol' fashion racism down south, but he switched to "coded language" when he got on the national stage.

Here's Wallace after losing the Alabama governor's race running as a moderate in 1958:
http://youtu.be/wLkCY0f73iE?t=34m53s

When there's a national audience, he talks about "state's rights" and federal overreach

http://youtu.be/wLkCY0f73iE?t=46m35s

and on his tour up North
http://youtu.be/wLkCY0f73iE?t=52m52s

It all comes down to right-wing politicians appealing to working class white men's hatred/fear of n****rs, commies, and hippies.

That doesn't make the strategy valid or morally justified.