But this was precisely what Bill Clinton failed to do. This defeat, both narrow and catastrophic, had many architects, but one of the most consequential occupied the White House nearly 25 years before, when her husband faced an America whose stagnant economy, rampant deindustrialization, and giant trade deficit cried out for structural reforms to decisively break with Reagan-style laissez-faire and renew the allegiance of hard-pressed voters with the party of Roosevelt, Truman, and Johnson. Hillary Clinton’s loss of the industrial Midwest to Donald Trump sealed her fate on Election Day 2016. This article appears in the Winter 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine.
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