To try and understand what happened and why, everyone should read a book called "Hillbilly Elegy" by author JD Vance who grew up in rural Ohio. 

He said thus: Vance describes his neighbors using those external forces as an excuse to give up — coworkers who were routinely late to jobs they desperately needed to support their families, and an acquaintance quitting his job because he didn't like getting up early and then taking to Facebook to bemoan the "Obama economy."

These are the people who elected Trump. And statistics bears that out. There's an angry white-lash out there, and Trump's style is to blame the Mexicans, the immigrants, China, and other foreign powers for America's troubles. 

He can't and won't fix America if he won't own its problems.