[GirlySports]

You guys are getting caught up in the numbers

I agree that steps like this are just a drop in the bucket and are largely corporate welfare. But at the same time, the GOP campaign ads for 2018 and 2020 write themselves. Trump can show clips from the debates where he said he'd keep Carrier jobs from going to Mexico then have some workers thank him for saving their job. Apparently Fox News is already doing that. The ads Obama ran against Romney for closing factories were powerful because of the basic, easy to understand message -- not because voters were running a full cost-benefit analysis of the impact of private equity firms on the US economy. Actions like the Carrier deal are far more valuable to the political fortunes of Trumpism than they are to the economy of Indiana or the country as a whole.

The working class has been steadily going downhill. Unless a presidential candidate from the party that has held the highest office for the past eight years does a great job of communicating that he or she is on their side, their bias will be to blame the candidate from the incumbent party. Clinton's personal conduct and campaign strategy made it pretty easy for even someone with Trump's lack of working class cred to win the contest for support from the working class.