Was China trying to influence us by offering a trip? Of course. Nothing wrong with that; the U.S. Department of State hosts foreign journalists. Lots of governments do it. Each wants to tell its side of the story.
It really begins with the New Deal and the failure of the Hoover Republicans to roll it back, in fact their inability to even nominate presidential candidates who advocated for repealing it.Â
Both islands are ordinary places with ordinary populations, which means both produce cruelty and stupidity in roughly the volumes you would expect from any few hundred thousand human beings.
But there’s always material.
Using combined vote share, if the results in the general election mirror the primary results we have seen so far Republicans will lose Washington state congressional and legislative seats once thought to be safely red.