There are a lot of happy coal miners, pipeline and oilers, car assemblers, all over the country who read the papers and know the jobs are coming back to the USA. They been down forgotten and out of work, but they see a new day comming where they will again have paychecks.
Paychecks and popular Presidents go together, Reagan knew that.
Working class people all across America having jobs and feeling economically comfortable is far more important than perceptions of people living in the DC bubble and echo chamber.