DAVID MARCUS: In West Virginia, a glimpse of what Democrats have lost
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In 2016, businessman Jim Justice ran for governor of West Virginia as a Democrat and won. Two years later, Joe Manchin was reelected to his senate seat as a Democrat in the Mountain state. Today, Justice is a Republican poised to flip that seat and maybe the Senate itself.
No state better represents the anachronistic Democratic Party of the 20th century than West Virginia, nor has any state retained so many of these dinosaurs for so long. But that seems about to change as the new Democrats abandon the center.
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I was invited to breakfast at a Chick-fil-A with about eight or nine guys ranging from their 20s to early 50s who meet up to talk about theology mainly, and a little politics. Aside from my confusion as the only Roman Catholic present as to the detailed intricacies of Annabaptist belief, I was struck by the fact that 25 years ago at least half these guys would have been Democrats. Thirty-five years ago, they all would have been.
This was blue, union, West by God Virginia back then. It featured
