Trump’s reindustrialization agenda faces its biggest hurdle — Americans

Americans say they want to bring back industry. President Donald Trump ran on reindustrialization and won. But when it comes to actual building, mining, and developing, people too often shut it down. Build, they say, just not in my backyard.

Peter Thiel put his finger on this pathology over a decade ago. "We wanted flying cars," he wrote, "instead we got 140 characters." His point wasn't merely about venture capital timidity. It was about a society that stopped building physical things,...