I've wondered about this. Big business was perfectly happy with GOP deregulation and tax cuts, but GOP extremism is really starting to hurt their bottom lines. It's not like red states had great economies to start with, but increasingly business investment is going to go to blue states. Interesting times indeed. link: Economist Paul Krugman: 'Increasingly radical' Republicans are scaring businesses in GOP-led states

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