Back in the day, when there was no expectation that the government would guarantee you a living, if the jobs dried up in your community due to conditions beyond your control, you couldn’t afford to sit and complain about it; you just moved on. You had no choice.
Today, reactionaries complain bitterly about the welfare state and how it provides a “hammock” for lazy people (in their eyes, usually minorities). Those reactionaries, however, live disproportionately in areas in which mining and manufacturing jobs have been lost or devalued due to technological change and globalization. They yearn for the good old days of hard work and high wages, not government handouts.
That is the reactionary paradox; reactionaries portray themselves as rugged individuals, but they frequently rely on the welfare state that they so despise to get by, and they demand government action to get their old jobs back instead of learning new skills or moving to the new jobs.