The Culprits Live In The Eccles Building, Not The Jefferson Memorial

On the margin, the Donald got elected by the burned out manufacturing zones of Flyover America. That is, the western Pennsylvania steel country, industrial Ohio, the automotive belt of Michigan and the former manufacturing towns of Wisconsin and Iowa. Trump didn't actually have a program to help them, of course, but his patter about bad trade deals, unfair foreign competition and America First resonated in places like these where, in fact, their jobs had been stolen.