2016 Postmortem

and this is what I said in another thread. It mimics your point. The guy was talking about the great unemployment numbers:

This isn't totally true. Our labor participation rate is really low. It basically means people have stopped looking for jobs. I think this is the frustration of the rust belt voter. We need to figure out a way to get them to feel like they haven't been screwed over for years. Because apparently they do.