it does put the democrats in a hard position in these regions, though.

i still want to abolish nafta, which still sucks.

and, the best options for workers do remain on the hard left.

but, the reality is, at this point, that trump has done more in material terms for these important swing voters than any democratic president has since lyndon johnson. obama, clinton and carter all gleefully stabbed them in the back, and the democratic punditry class remains keen to look down on them.

the democrats may now find themselves on the losing end of this argument in ways that they really never have in their entire existence - not since the beginning of the union movement in the 1920s.

and, the democrats will have only themselves to blame for it.