The problem is not the politics, which flows from the economics, but the economics. California, NJ, NY, and MI, as Kotkin pointed out, have gone from diversified economies and thus lobbies and bosses, to states with a few really rich yuppies, and illegal alien servants.

Cheered on by a profoundly feminized and female oriented media. Which is hard-wired to want princes and princesses instead of ordinary men and women.

Yuppies + women in public life = NYC. Filled with Masters of the universe and hard-scrabble illegal aliens, Rosa the illegal alien nanny.

That’s all that needs to be said. It is not going to change unless one part of the equation, either Yuppies eliminated or women changed, changes.