Political Junkie

President Trump, in perhaps the smartest move of his entire Presidential campaign, released a list of candidates that he would pick from when choosing Supreme Court nominees should Americans choose to elect him President. Liberals slammed President Trump for relying on “special interest groups” such as the Federalist Society when crafting the list, acting as if the American public actually believed that Democratic Presidents never thought about how NARAL might feel about the Supreme Court nominees they put forward. The death of originalist icon Antonin Scalia in February 2016, just nine months before the 2016 Presidential Election, really shook up the race and allowed President Trump to energize the conservative base by reminding them that should Hillary Clinton win the Presidential Election, the Court would permanently tilt to the left (polling showed that Americans already saw the Supreme Court as too liberal.) Needless to say, President Trump ended up winning the 2016 Presidentia...

I have always been convinced that the northeast is the most liberal part of the country.   In light of recent events, I have begun to rethink that opinion.   It appears as if the west coast, sometimes referred to as the left coast, has replaced the northeast as the bedrock of American liberalism.   For one thing, the states on the left coast have experienced population growth at a much faster rate than the states in the northeast.   The left coast has seen its representation in congress increase while states in the northeast have mostly been losing electoral votes after the most recent population counts.   As this map demonstrates, many of the counties on the left coast, especially in California , swung to the left in the 2016 election while most of the counties in the northeast swung to the right.   Four of the five of the states on the left coast, including Republican-leaning Alaska , have legalized marijuana.   Surprisingly, Hawaii is the ...