When socialist policies have just about destroyed a city or a state, the government then does little but attempt to keep competition out so as to protect its remaining cash cows. It never works.
One big change in Michigan is the way things are being done to fix Detroit.
The democrats threw wads of money at Detroit with no oversight. They looked at it from the perspective that a dependent city was good for democrats.
The republicans are willing to spend money fixing Detroit but not without firm control and monitoring. Basically they see a healthy Detroit as good for the state rather than making Detroit the central goal.
The reason Detroit so vehemently opposed the new international bridge was because they won’t have control of the money. The owner of the Ambassador bridge (Matty Maroun) has owned the city council for decades but Canada won’t be paying them off.