Maryland's Republican governor has done three things remarkably well in order to secure his incumbency in a Democratic state. 1) At the beginning of his term, he fought a cancer diagnosis with courage and grace. 2) He has spoken out against Trumpism just enough to please Dems...
https://twitter.com/jemillerwbal/status/1378068581829775361
...but never enough to impair his GOP cred. It takes a callow, calculating man to arrive at the binary moment of the 2020 general election and write-in Ronald Reagan on his ballot. And 3) He has taken every opportunity to exacerbate and advance Maryland's long-standing...
bipolar political geography by shitting on and misusing Baltimore, its needs and realities at every possible opportunity to the quiet satisfaction of the populous Washington suburbs - a region in which a mass of voters enjoy the circumstance of being oriented toward...
...a city that is not the state's largest metropolitan area, but rather a neighboring jurisdiction. And these voters, long ambivalent about addressing themselves to the reality of a city to which they are unaffiliated, can enjoy the circumstance of paying taxes toward the...
...maintenance of either city. By shitting on and denying Baltimore, and by delivering for a bipartisan base of support in the D.C. suburbs, Hogan has secured his political reality. Other than that, he's a hack uninterested in addressing the reality of the state he governs.
*neither* city. Apologies.
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