Super wealthy towns that heavily swung against Donald Trump

[MT Treasurer]

I think Democrats won't move to the left economically, they're destined to become a Fairfax County-type party IMO. Not sure about the GOP, populism or Trumpism (and let's not forget that Trump has basically been governing like a generic R so far, with one or two exceptions like that stupid executive order) alone won't be a winning strategy in the long term. They'll have to combine it with something else. The party will probably be pretty fractured, not that that's necessarily a bad thing.

[MT Treasurer]

I think Democrats won't move to the left economically, they're destined to become a Fairfax County-type party IMO. Not sure about the GOP, populism or Trumpism (and let's not forget that Trump has basically been governing like a generic R so far, with one or two exceptions like that stupid executive order) alone won't be a winning strategy in the long term. They'll have to combine it with something else. The party will probably be pretty fractured, not that that's necessarily a bad thing.

I'm oh-so skeptical of this.  They're far from that type of party now, and I think they're smart enough to know they'd win about 30% of the vote being such a party.

Last time I checked Hillary Clinton won the PV with 48% of the vote, not 30%. Democrats will always have a floor of 46%/47% or so because of White liberals and minority voters.

[MT Treasurer]

I DID read what you wrote, I just disagree with you that they aren't a Fairfax County-type Party already. There's a reason Hillary Clinton won the Democratic nomination and had such a big appeal among NeverTrump Republicans.

I'm also not saying that only a populist/Trumpist Republican can win a presidential election (I have no doubt that Kasich would have beaten Clinton as well). Trump is obviously hurting the GOP in states like TX and GA and I don't want to see that continuing in the future. That doesn't necessarily have to do with populism though, but rather with Trump being an incompetent moron.