I guess you forgot about Hillary saying that they were going to put a whole lot of coal miners out of business................
I realize Trump wasn't able to save coal, but at least he wasn't actively trying to kill it.
But there is another issue in play. While I realize, even if I don't necessarily understand it, that some people want government more involved in their lives, I am not sure some even realize, much less understand, that some people simply don't. They want as little government in their lives as possible. And that is how they vote. It used to be easy to distinguish between the two, one side wanted more spending, the other less as if that equated how much government was in people's lives. Sadly now that both sides seem to want to spend like drunken sailors, it is harder to figure out what is what. Fortunately COVID has provided a lot of people with that answer.
I could have posted screen shots, but they would have been huge. Here are links:
[URL unfurl="true"]https://projects.propublica.org/represent/members/R000615/votes-against-party/116[/URL]
[URL unfurl="true"]https://projects.propublica.org/represent/members/C001109-liz-cheney/votes-against-party/117[/URL]
But to summarize, Romney voted against the party 4.5% of the time vs. the average of 3.9% & Cheney voted against the party 7.0% vs the average of 6.1%.
