I'd go back a little further than Trump, but you make a solid point. The more liberal east tended to go D, the more conservative west tended to go R. It was a swing state not so long ago.

If this is true, then please explain the repeated elections of Terry Branstad. 🙄

How about the repeated elections of Tom Harkin? Branstad was the Lt Governor of the very respectable Bob Ray, and he was an establishment Republican. Bad enough, but nowhere near as radical as today's MAGA Republicans.

This is true - especially in the Obama years it felt like things were at a tipping point. After Reynolds and Co it went straight down. There is also massive brain drain as someone who grew up and went to college there. The % of the say top 20% of each of my graduating classes still there is tiny

Historically, there has always been serious, frequently violent backlash whenever people of color have made progress in the US. It's our role now to fight back against that backlash and try to push progress again.

And it will take all of you.

Everyone who's willing, to the very limit of what each of us is willing and able to do.

You need to start. Yesterday.

Indeed.

Kim could get a sewage enema and be less full of shit. Few hours north and there's people like Omar that actually care and work.