MT-SEN 2020: Time for Bullock?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

MT has a large amount of persuadable voters.....

The future of the Democratic Party are educated suburbanites, not rural white trash kiddo.

I mean, this is correct, but I'm not going to stop pointing out that it's sick (and, yes, indicative of undisguised regional and class prejudice) that you people take so much pleasure in it.

Anyway, Safe R->Tilt/Lean R, and the Democrats should definitely seriously contest this with Bullock.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I've actually reconciled myself to conceding that IceSpear et al. are entirely correct about the key facts of the urban/rural polarization going on. My opposition to "the 'racist hicks' narrative" is basically a tone argument combined with a compassion argument and a desire not to see this realignment carried to its logical extreme if that's possible to avoid any more. It's foolish to deny that non-metropolitan parts of the country in general are becoming rabidly partisan Republican strongholds, and only marginally less foolish to deny that this is due in large part to "identity" issues.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

That's why I'm saying "in general". I live in Franklin County; I'm well aware that there are rural areas that buck these trends, just as there are metropolitan areas, like South Florida, that had anemic Democratic results or even trended Republican this year. (Or, to use an example from a previous realignment, just as there were always Catholics and Jews who voted Republican in the days of the New Deal coalition).

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I've actually reconciled myself to conceding that IceSpear et al. are entirely correct about the key facts of the urban/rural polarization going on. My opposition to "the 'racist hicks' narrative" is basically a tone argument combined with a compassion argument and a desire not to see this realignment carried to its logical extreme if that's possible to avoid any more. It's foolish to deny that non-metropolitan parts of the country in general are becoming rabidly partisan Republican strongholds, and only marginally less foolish to deny that this is due in large part to "identity" issues.

What exactly is your deal?