The feeling of gloom looms heavy over Iowa as the caucus approaches, according to a New York Times report from the ground (gift link here). As Doug Gross, a longtime Republican state activist who was a one-time candidate for governor, said, “You get the feeling in Iowa right now that we’re sleepwalking into a nightmare and there’s nothing we can do about it. In Iowa, life isn’t lived in extremes, except the weather, and yet they still feel this dramatic sense of inevitable doom.”
“There’s civil war coming. I’m convinced of it,” said Mark Binns, a chemical engineer who attended campaign events for both Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, noting that he intends to spend November 2024 in Brazil to escape the violence he anticipates. “Quite literally, I may leave the country for that week. The division is too wide.”
Here’s the problem with the Times’ reporting: Iowa is being flooded by Republicans hellbent on getting Joe Biden out of office, so they’re warping reality to make it seem like everywhere outside Iowa is a liberal-run communist factory town churning out LGBTQ union teachers indoctrinating children in DEI while preparing them to be harvested for their adrenochrome. There’s no Democratic equivalent giving a realistic perspective.