Much Of Ohio Is Trump Country. And That Complicates Things For The GOP

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25. Kasich only thrived because Ohio Dems are so dysfunctional

I mean, FitzGerald in 2014 basically gifted Kasich re-election by his own sheer ineptitude. That was a gimme that Kasich never even remotely deserved.

There’s actually zero reason he should have won after his HB5 “right to work”/anti-union proposal was shot down in flames statewide in 2012. A competent Democratic Party would have torched him for it daily and used it as their platform to bludgeon him in 2014. But Ohio Dems? Utterly fucking clueless. They basically handed that robber the keys to the Brinks Truck with a smile and shrugged it off.

Had they beat him in 2014, he would not have run a vanity campaign in 2016. Perhaps some other scandals, like ECOT-William Lager and Householder’s bribery would have also been exposed and dealt with before they blew up as the messes that they were allowed to become.

This past decade of unfettered Republican Rule here has been absolutely brutal. I hate these motherfuckers and the mess they have made of this state.