Yeah, Backwoodsman. We're sure screwed up. We can make excuses about how the Republicans manipulated the Electoral College and won the 2016 election by losing by 3 million votes, but how did we ever have even 46.1 percent of our voters vote for somebody like that? (Clinton had 48.2%).

I really can't understand the madness that rules such a large part of the country. The entire middle of the US voted for Trump, and they still support him despite all his idiocy.

And those are good people in the middle of the country, the "heartland." They used to all be Democrats. What happened?

-Joe-

P.S. The article you posted is excellent. I have seen few better descriptions of the plight the United States faces.