Kentuckians deserve Beshear. They should have learned from the two terms his father was governor. The current Beshear is positioning himself to be a future senator. Since Kentuckians are generally looking for the dole, they’ll happily reelect Beshear or elect him to the US Senate.
The Republican Party in Kentucky is alive and well. Bevin would have been re-elected if he had not been a bit too aggressive with the public sector unions (although I agreed with him). Like many states, wherever you crowd too many people in a confined area and make them lose their minds, they end up voting Democrat. Louisville is responsible for the millionaire trustafarian Yarmouth and the biggest piece of shit paper in the country, which is the Courier-Journal. Lexington is also a problem. Both cities have areas where English is not spoken.