What's the matter with Jim Justice?

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Stupid name

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By and large, the coal industry itself destroyed as a source of stable employment with its war on unions, it's cost-cutting and move away from shaft mining. Now (seeing as I don't think there are any shaft mines left) the coal communities are all largely broken, because the remaining coal mines are very dependent on the shifting price of coal and the jobs tend to be more ephemeral. West Virginia needs jobs and its counties need a dependent source if replacement revenue, which can only be reached once you acknowledge that Appalachian coal is in a period of structural decline. After all it is easy to romantacise the job, but it is a nasty, dangerous occupation where you are exploited to a horrid degree.

The fact that the Democratic Party - a party ostensibly for workers - is reduced to literally running a coal plutocrat is proof they don't really get it.

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Many industries have done declined before Wulfric. The federal Democrats have rationally adopted a plan of adapting with the change rather than denying reality and siding with the greedy executives.