MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Guest op-ed by Abby M. McCloskey @ WashingtonPost.com, Dec. 31; she is an economist and founder of McCloskey Policy. She has advised multiple presidential campaigns, most recently as policy director for Howard Schultz.
Mainly lays out how Trump's signature policies are unpopular in Texas even though it usually leans Republican.
[....] More Texas voters disapprove of Trump’s job performance (49 percent) than approve (43 percent), according to a recent poll conducted by the University of Texas at Tyler. According to FiveThirtyEight, Trump’s popularity in Texas remains far below what it should be given the state’s significant Republican lean [....]