Great article, lucid, informatively structured. One thing, tho, there is a not-so dormant Cold War in the USA, a cold CIVIL war. trump scum who put trump into our lives cannot be “lured” — ever— by leftist ideals of any kind or degree of leftness. I don’t care what their incomes are. Trying to “appeal” to these morons is futile.

My position is that only a handful of these cultists will “see the light”, and NO ONE, least of all a politician, can make, cajole, persuade them to see the light. This handful will see the light all by themselves, for whatever reason (I got, uh, glug-glug, lung dis ease and you mean a tell me mah hey-alth cay yah is gon’ go ‘way?). Never trump. Never trump scum.