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Mike in MD's avatar

Fun historical fact: the last time a Democrat won a PA state Senate seat in Lancaster County was a special election in ....1889.

https://nitter.poast.org/PAMapper/status/1904727640809865413#m

That was followed by a national Democratic wave in 1890. One of the big issues that Dems exploited in that cycle was tariffs passed by a Republican trifecta (Benjamin Harrison was president, and William McKinley was the Congressional power behind the tariffs) which sharply raised the prices of many consumer goods.

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The People's Media's avatar

Incredible. We’re doing measles! And segregation! And dropsy! And tariffs! And dysentery!

I’m so happy I get to live through the 1890s again.

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michaelflutist's avatar

Until you got to dropsy, it was the 2020s.

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ArcticStones's avatar

A terrific and uplifting read – the breaking-news article, Mike’s informative comment, and People’s Media’s wry reply. Ok, the latter was admittedly not uplifting. But, hey, such are the absurd consequences of Trump/Musk/Thiel’s path to Neo-Feudalism.

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