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I've argued for a while that "coal country" hasn't been coal country for a long time; the local economies depend far more on things like health care, and the coal obsession gets in the way of addressing real issues 1/ nytimes.com/2017/03/31/opi…
Now we have a perfect illustration: Rep. Andy Barr invited AOC to get mugged by, I mean, talk to coal miners in his KY district about the Green New Deal. But it turns out that there aren't any coal miners in his district! 2/ businessinsider.com/alexandria-oca…
And when AOC accepted, of course Barr came up with a weak excuse to disinvite her. You see, she might have talked about his district's real interests, and actually won some voters over 3/
