The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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I try not to let politics trouble me. Vilsack went to IA where he was governor before he moved to the Obama administration. Democrats are working to unseat Grassley in 2022 and to do that they'll have to again frame the party as populist. Biden is a corporate democrat who has reframed himself as folksy uncle Joe.

One of Grassley's democratic rivals has already tried framing Grassley as a 'coastal elite' which is hilarious. Grassley is a moderate republican and should have been able to win easily but now that he'll be in his 90s through the great majority of his next term and the IA republican party is firmly behind the former president, Grassley is between a rock and a hard place. The election will be more a referendum on Trump than a contest between Grassley and his opponent.

The gloves will be off in 2022 and you can bet the great majority of those Deere union folks voted for Trump and Grassley in 2016. Vilsack is just shaking hands one vote at a time.