Trump spurs small-business optimism in Milwaukee area

It’s all still quite tentative, but Donald Trump’s election and first few months as president have small-business executives in southeastern Wisconsin feeling sunnier about the prospects for their companies.

That may not seem surprising; business generally favors Republicans. But there was no comparable surge in small-business optimism when George W. Bush won in 2000 after eight years of Democratic incumbency.<snip>

Good. The Rust Belt put him in the White House. Those folks need to start feeling measurable improvements.