I took a road trip through the west coast and went through that county last year. It was depressing. And the author is exactly correct. Meth has taken the place of once thriving industries. Ever since the stupid spotted owl scam leftists have shut down lumber harvesting. Then the salmon scam killed what was left and wiped out anything water related. And all the while saying stupid things like “We don’t need to cut down trees, I get my lumber from Home Depot” as a spotted owl makes a nest in their neon signs.
I was in Pacific County in the summer. There were a lot of Trump signs.
Washington state has been overrun by the enviro whackies. The little towns out by the coast, Aberdeen and Hoquiam, that used to prosper from fishing and timber have become quiet little left-overs of former prosperity.
The Seattle-ites all think the economy is grand with the tech companies and all the new buildings going up. But we have huge homeless encampments and a lot of unemployed folks. It is a classic example of the elites and the suck up to elites squeezing out the working class and the small business owners to create the kind of scenario of lords and ladies and then peasants with no middle class.
Also, I’m sure the people with electric cars do not realize that for most of the country the electricity is provided by the coal mines that Shillary vowed to shut down. Here in the Northwest we have a lot of hydro power, but the greenies would also like to breach the damns to provide salmon access.