High-insight paragraph here that requires a mini-thread. thehill.com/opinion/campai… ...
1) ... "[New England] sent Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Bernie Sanders of Vermont back to the U.S. Senate; its House delegations are nearly all Democratic. ..." ...
2) ... "... However, Republicans carried governorships in Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts; Bay State voters were willing to pick Warren while keeping Republican Gov. Charlie Baker by an even larger margin." ...
3) ... "It hearkens back to one of Robert Conquest’s three laws of politics: 'Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.'" ...
4) ... "Voters in New England wanted to show the nation their anti-Trump cred while bringing in local leaders who will keep their state taxes and fees lower: Socialism for thee, but not for me." ...
... Probably numerous take-aways, but one of them is the political surplus-value of fragmentation. ...
... A New England restricted to governing itself, rather than signaling evangelical progressivism within a larger political unit would be doing vastly less damage. ...
... There are effective incentives to not be an idiot near home.
... Restated with additional emphasis:
... A New England restricted to governing itself, rather than signaling evangelical progressivism within a larger political unit would be doing vastly less damage EVEN TO ITSELF.
... A New England restricted to governing itself, rather than signaling evangelical progressivism within a larger political unit would be doing vastly less damage EVEN TO ITSELF.
