I’m thinking that the cost of doing business in New York explains a bit of it.
I'm thinking that the cost of doing business for the signers of the Declaration of Independence was to go along with the Crown, but they refused and instead put political principle above financial gain.
So, by the way, did the woman in England just arrested for putting on her facebook page that she would no longer welcome Muslims at her beauty salon. She was arrested for being "racially abusive" (though since when Islam has been a race is beyond me, I must have missed the memo) and her words were: "Sorry, but time to put my country first."
Donald Trump was putting financial gain first so recently as to help put Harry Reid, John Kerry, Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, and Ted Kennedy in office. Does it matter how many Republicans he also helped, when he used his own hard-earned money to advance those political tyrants to advance his own bottom line?
This wasn't 20 years ago. It was recently enough that everyone should understand clearly the risk they are taking by investing so much faith in a man, Trump, with ZIP RECORD of political commitment, direction, or vision.