The centrist Brookings Institution’s Darrell West said something to Politico last year that should go without saying, but I keep coming back to it because, to me, it’s comedy through understatement: “The stock market could be doing great, but if unemployment is going up and AI is taking jobs — that’s not great for the average American.” For now, the stock market is doing well and so are jobs. But Americans hate the economy anyway. They also don’t like AI. And they don’t seem fond of AI executives. Over in China, things work differently. People seem to like and trust…