Immediately following the 2016 election, CNN’s Van Jones traveled to rural Ohio to meet with and interview a family that switched from Obama voters in 2012, to Trump in 2016. His goal was sincere. “I really want to know what the hell happened.”

On the trip out there, the camera crew captured images of rusted out factories that not long ago provided living wage jobs to thriving communities.

The crux of the interview was that this particular family believed Donald Trump’s promise to return jobs to those factories, coupled with not being big fans of Hillary, they decided to switch. Not uncommon in rural America, a total pocketbook decision.

Trump is less vocal about the Carrier deal these days as layoffs outnumber jobs promised.

The irony here is that Trump’s base consists of generally white, blue collar workers whose livelihood depends on living wage jobs. A recent article by the Brookings Institute asserts that while indeed the economy is adding jobs, the vast majority of them are going to college educated individuals.

The number of Americans with high school degrees or less who are employed, in this 9th year of economic expansion, has fallen by 2,995,000.

I find it odd that virtually everyone is voting against their own economic interests. The college educated demographic voted overwhelmingly for Hillary.

In any case, I’m sorry to inform the Trump voters out there, those factories are just as rusty as ever. The real threat to job loss isn’t immigrants or bad trade deals. It’s automation.

The yoke’s on you.