And have lower costs and are more republican. Will can argue that housing crisis is a bit of extreme language for what is a “high-cost metro” or high cost state problem—the issue is that high costs in housing are found in liberal and democratic areas and associated with them.

I do think this gets at one of the crucial developments of Trump 2. They really want to highlight and strengthen the boundaries, legally, culturally and morally between the citizen and the non-citizen.

Yeah, Medicaid cuts are a predictable pain borne out of a fiscal balancing act (and a good dose of just not caring), but this tsunami of ICE funding is much more ominous. What are they planning

Yes, but actually! For the most part, we spent money on procedures without focusing on visible outcomes.

I don't know, but this does seem like a 'yes and'. People are voting with their feet and choosing to live in cheaper, more conservative places. You need to have intense focus on these rule of law concerns, but you also need to make liberal places more attractive than conservative ones.

I think this is fairly right. The hope is for the bundle of authoritarian actions that Trump is doing gets associated with failure in the form of foreign policy setbacks, higher prices, lower quality of living, more crime, or some other negative. Moral appeals just have no juice.