2016 Postmortem

First, hear me clearly. Clinton didn't run a bad campaign, but it wasn't good enough. Her policy proposals were not front and center and clear. Her MAIN message was the anti-Trump message. This is indisputable. Not just she, but the ENTIRE PARTY did not have a clear and compelling enough economic message.

Next, no one is the rust belt gives a shit in hell who was most to blame for the jobs leaving. And remember, CLINTON signed NAFTA and Obama pushed the TPP night and day. They see BOTH parties to blame, and they are largely right.

Now they want the problem FIXED. They don't want to hear the shitty talk about "those jobs are never coming back" and they don't want to hear about being re-trained for jobs that don't exist. In fact in some places the jobs HAVE started to come back because transportation costs are better for companies who make things right here rather than China.

They want to hear that someone is going after the SHIT trade deals. Trump said it CLEARLY. They want to hear about JOB CREATION. Trump said it CLEARLY. They want to hear about fixing Washington and having a government and economy that works for everyone. Trump said it CLEARLY. Sure Trump is full of shit, but he SAID IT CLEARLY even he didn't mean it or can't really do it.

And YES, we can bring back manufacturing if even just on a small scale at first. YES we can support family farmers. YES we can increase biomass production jobs in rural America. YES we can increase wood products jobs in rural America. YES we can increase small tech startups in rural America. YES we can increase tourism in rural America. YES we can increase outdoor rec jobs in rural America. YES we can fix the infrastructure in rural America creating millions of jobs. There is a lot we can do, and they want to hear what we CAN do in clear, strong, concrete terms.