[higgmeister]

Noem represents South Dakota, a state with many small town newspapers and almost no forestry jobs which benefit from selling wood chips and pulp. Some of the newspapers actually practive journalism in flyover America.

She is thinking localized and tactical while Trump is thinking international and strategic. IOW, change all these stupid multinational America last trade agreements to logical bilateral trade agreements which benefit both partners.

My wife just said almost the same thing. They still have newspapers in SD and large rural areas that don't have good access to digital media. Dial-up and DSL isn't as dependable for them as black and white and red allover newsprint.

[Vigilanteman]

Yep. That, plus it is hard to wrap trash, clean up dog$#*+ or swat flies with a computer monitor, LOL!

Some of your best editorial writing in the country comes out of these flyover country rural newspapers. I kid you not. You can even look up some of these papers on-line.

There is a huge misconception that a lot of people in such areas just aren't very bright. The reality is that many of them have been successful elsewhere and chose to unplug because they see where much of the rest of the world is headed.