I’m not sure why this article got a possible barf alert. The author is quite correct. States that were once reliably R are now drifting D. Virginia is a good example of that.
But we are not seeing the opposite. We are not seeing states that were once reliably D drifting R.
It will take a Herculean effort to turn this around.
Pat Buchanan was ridiculed for his warnings on unfettered immigration 30 years ago. The man was prescient and continues to have clear eyed analysis
Virginia is unique.
Northern VA is an ever-expanding Marxist world sucking at the teat of the Fed. gov. - unlimited money. It is NOT Virginia.
While we have our Marxist hubs like Richmond, Charlottesville, Roanoke and some of Tidewater, without NOVA (Northern VA) we would be a red state.
We’ve again been invaded by the North, and without any defense.
Trump has taken a very common-sense approach to China on trade, but the fact is, little difference as far as far as I can see, yet.
Little difference.
He definitely seems to get it, unlike anyone in American public life, in the entire last 30 years.
But there are MASSIVE trade balance problems even now.
Trump seems to have gotten that, but they continue even now.
“I’m not sure why this article got a possible barf alert.”
Me neither. It is not like that this is the first time that Buchanan has noted that “demographics is destiny” and encourages the Republican Party to understand that fact.