[buwaya]

Very complex situation and history that doesn’t map into US politics in any systematic way.

There are, for instance, TWO sets of “deplorables” and TWO “swamps”. And both are present in the same region. There is culture war on both sides and both have reason to be aggrieved.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for saying that. It is not at all equivalent to what we would recognize as Left-Right politics.

There are social-political-cultural-religious-ethnic factors --- and even strong ties of personal loyalty in which individuals are identified with almost inscrutable movements ---- which are different altogether from any scene we as Americans would identify with.