If done right fixing the jobs problem should be a net positive for the economy. I don't think it's malice. I think it's that most political leadership (of both

If done right fixing the jobs problem should be a net positive for the economy. I don't think it's malice. I think it's that most political leadership (of both parties) lives in coastal cities that haven't felt the pain to anywhere near the extent of the interior. They also tend to be immersed in aggregate statistics that don't tell the whole story. GDP might be going up but break it down by region, calculate the Gini coefficient, etc. and you see that there are huge problems.