Well summarized, thank you. To add to what you said, I do think a lot of regular Americans are actually waking up to what the Democrat Party has now become. Democrats are the party of kooks and fringe elements of society. They are undermining and destroying the country and I suspect the people in the areas you noted cannot help but see this first hand. That, combined with the obvious propaganda type lying of the MSM, as in, who are you going to believe, me, or your own lying eyes?
And that, Sir, is why I can never understand why people like Eric Erickson spew their thoughts on what is wrong with the Democratic party and what they need to do, to fix it. I realize that he and the other pundits have to make a living and that’s how they do it. But, I’m all for what the Dem’s and the Left are doing to this country. The more ANTIFA/BLM, etc do what the do, the more people it pushes away from the dem’s.
Most people are in the middle, I think. And the more chaos and divisiveness is sowed, the more the people that are, Left of Center, will start voting for Republicans. Whether they do it enthusiastically or holding their nose, a vote is a vote.