Actually, it was a good analysis. Trump ran poorly in many more heavily Republican suburban counties populated by upscale, white collar “moderate” Republicans such as Loudoun in Virginia, Chester and Bucks in Pennsylvania, Morris in New Jersey, Gwinnett and Cobb in Georgia, among many others. Part of this was the photo of the ancient leering Bush Sr. with RFK’s daughter, having “endorsed” Clinton (really disgusting for those of us who knew he wasn’t any good but held our noses to vote for him in 1988 since he had been Reagan’s VP) and his dolt son, GW, who did his best to wreck the Republican Party and supposedly left his presidential ballot line blank. No, Bushes, we don’t need you, stay with your friends, the Clintons, you are finished with the base of this Party or at least enough of us that you will never win another primary for a national election.
You mean liberals?
Agreed on all points.
I can’t speak to all of the counties mentioned, but at least as far as Cobb and Gwinnett in GA are concerned, I suspect Trump’s weakness had more to do with the increase of Hispanics than moderate/Bushie sentiment. I also suspect the same is true for the Texas 7th Congressional District, which the author mentions was GHWB’s old district. It still includes wealthy areas, but much of it has become downscale Hispanic. Unsurprisingly given what has happened to our country in recent decades, it does not much resemble the district GHWB won 50 years ago.