If things such as Trump’s rift with Elon Musk, the Jeffrey Epstein files, or his seemingly hawkish turn in foreign policy ...

Though blue states make up the majority of "donor" states, the top three biggest "recipient" states — New Mexico, Maryland, and Virginia — are also blue.

Even the most competitive and evenly balanced states are infected by the same contagion as the hardened one-party states.

Red state politicians and their citizens yet again claim the SALT deduction subsidizes high-tax and high-spend blue states. More realistically, it subsidizes the red states that want neither.