The Republicans have a very limited idea of what constitutes “infrastructure.” Why? For the same reason they’re willing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on the military, but refuse to wear masks: they’re the Daddy Party! Anything involving large, burly men on noisy, powerful machines, or blowing stuff up, is in their wheelhouse. Anything else–forget it.
Trump had a fixation with “real” jobs that were done by strong men: frackers; coal miners; and steelworkers. Retail sales clerks–not so much. He was not alone.