Okay, I do not like to be happy when bad things happen to other people. Unless, of course, they damn well deserved it.

EAGLE GROVE, Iowa—On a cloud-swept landscape dotted with grain elevators, a meat producer called Prestage Farms is building a 700,000-square-foot processing plant. The gleaming new factory is both the great hope of Wright County, which voted by a 2-1 margin for Donald Trump, and the victim of one of Trump’s first policy moves, his decision to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

For his part, Trump once promised a slew of “beautiful” deals to replace the TPP, but his administration has yet to lay out a detailed strategy.

I guess it was kinda like repeal and replace except they haven’t decided how to replace it, letting China take America’s place as the leading trade negotiator.

“I’m scared to death,” said Ron Prestage, whose North Carolina-based family pork and poultry business made its huge investment in the plant near Eagle Grove in part to reap expected gains from the TPP.

I do not know where the beautiful deals are and neither does Trump.

But the people who voted for him are getting hurt.  Maybe they’ll learn something.

Probably not, though.