“The free market has been sorting it out,” Vice President-elect Mike Pence said last week, “and America’s been losing,”

Pence is a smart conservative, and he knows that the Trump administration will never make America great again with bribes and threats against every company that ponders exporting its jobs over the southern border to Mexico. Crony corporatism of that sort can secure wins here and there, but it won’t change the economy or make the working classes better off.