Sunday’s editorial calls out President Trump on his promise to create 25 million jobs for working-class voters. In Michigan on Wednesday, he stood in a gleaming center devoted to automotive innovation, offering workers the policy equivalent of a beat-up wreck from the 1980s: tariffs, closed borders, regulatory rollbacks and a sugar-high assurance to restore American manufacturing to its heyday of half a century ago.
But United States manufacturing has changed. Just ask Titus Hayes, a watch repair supervisor at Shinola, a boutique timepiece, bicycle and leather goods manufacturer that has fostered a small renaissance in midtown Detroit. Mr. Hayes grew up wanting to work for the Big Three, like everyone in his family did.
