Here is an article at The Atlantic that I think is a must read.
In general it takes how states voted and ties it to their economic development, but through the prism of carbon admissions. Then discusses Trump’s oil saturated administration appointments.
The GOP is living in the 70’s-80’s. The country is moving on, and will continue to do so. They love states rights, we will show them what they really look like.
.
The 1870s and the 1880s.
I have complained about Democratic candidates and the August vacation before. I did not know that Hillary Clinton had succumbed to this temptation and lost 78,000 votes or so in three critical states in what might have been.
The problem with these economies are destiny articles, like the demographics are destiny and PVI is destiny is destiny articles is that they let the Democratic leadership and candidates off the hook or actually having to work the crowds for votes. Of actually having to explain their arguments for policies to people who might listen to RusBo all day. Of having to figure out how to penetrate the right-wing BS that is the information environment of the high-carbon-emission states. And to actually witness the fact that people can’t afford new cars, that their employers might not have the working capital to make their workplaces more energy efficient, or that the austerity economics that national and especially state Democrats helped set up as a response to the Great Recession actually made people’s lives worse when the illusion was the D was in power.
But Democratic candidates did not bother to go out to see or if they did, they bought the public’s analysis picked up right from RushBo.