High-insight paragraph here that requires a mini-thread. https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/415750-democrats-face-tough-2020-battle-after-blowing-chance-at-blue-wave … ...
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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. ..." ...
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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." ...
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3) ... "It hearkens back to one of Robert Conquest’s three laws of politics: 'Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.'" ...
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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." ...
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... Probably numerous take-aways, but one of them is the political surplus-value of fragmentation. ...
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... A New England restricted to governing itself, rather than signaling evangelical progressivism within a larger political unit would be doing vastly less damage. ...
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... There are effective incentives to not be an idiot near home.
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... 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.
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