What happened after 2012 that made iowans more angry at democrats?
The white working class sees daily on local news how miserable life in cities is, meanwhile, the democrats increasingly embrace cosmopolitanism, for years, they trusted democrats by larger levels than their equivalents on other states, since Obama went full blown liberal SJW supporting tougher gun control measures, more immigration, trans bathrooms, BLM, Iowa has turned its back on the democratic party, they finally followed suit and embraced the party that speaks to them and wants to save them from being run over by immigrants.