I came up with the answer earlier today: Give the Liberal Progressive Democrats an incentive to move to California. It’s already gone, and consolidating them there would probably turn several salvagable states from blue to red.
They’d love it there because it has all their favorite stuff: drugs, porn, celebs, warm weather, and lots of brown people speaking Espanol to make them feel good and trim their lawns.
Look at it as draining the swamp, only we’d be draining the red and purple states, with the end of the hose stuck somewhere in the San Francisco Bay.
Nice dream. The reality is that Rust State Dems are moving to TX, NC, GA, FL because that is where the jobs are. Nobody is asking these RB Dems to think about why there are no jobs in Detroit, Flint, Chicago, etc.
The result is they are turning Red States Purple. That is the reality. So far Heritage, CATO, AFP, AFF, and RNC are doing nothing to change this...nothing to educate the immigrants to the Red States.
Former red suburbs in Ga and NC went Blue in 2016. Half of that was Rust Belt voters new to those red suburbs. Of course, half of the voters in those suburbs are Sam Nunn Democrats...establishment opportunists who thought Hillary would win and they needed to kiss up to her to keep the federal aid flowing to their bureaucratic gummint jobs.
2018 is mid-range and important.
2020 controls the long range game.
Trump will control the Census.
Republican State legislatures will control redistricting.
Count babies in the womb in the 2020 Census. To make the point in the debate over this, one Congress person should propose a baby in the womb should count as 3/5 of a person.
The entire Census questions should be re-thought. Modernize it. But at the same time, reduce personal questions to make libertarians happy.