Tuesday Opinion
Read Tony Perkins, Cal Thomas, Stephen Moore, Dennis Prager, Gary Bauer and more.
Best of Right Opinion
- Tony Perkins: Trump on Military: Readiness, Set, Go
- Cal Thomas: Budget Contributes to National Insecurity
- Stephen Moore: No, Hillary Clinton: It’s the Red States That Are Dynamic
- Dennis Prager: Trump, Adultery, Morality
- Gary Bauer: March Against the Second Amendment
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Opinion in Brief
Stephen Moore: “What hasn’t been noted for the record is that Clinton had her facts wrong. For at least the last two decades, most of the dynamism and growth … has been fleeing from the once economically dominant blue states that Clinton won and relocating to the red states that Trump won. Here’s the evidence. Of the 12 blue states that Hillary Clinton won by the largest margins … all but three of them lost residents through domestic migration (excluding immigration) over the last 10 years. … Now let’s contrast the Clinton states with the 12 states that went to Trump with the largest margins. Ten out of them … were net population gainers. The outpouring of residents from blue to red states almost has been one of the biggest demographic stories in American history, with a thousand people making the move every day on average. … While it is true that the blue states of the two coasts and several of the Midwestern states are richer than the redder states of the South and mountain regions, she failed to mention the giant transfer of wealth from Clinton to Trump states. IRS tax return data confirm that from 2006 to 2016, Clinton’s states lost $113.6 billion in combined wealth, whereas Trump’s states gained $116 billion. … We need national economic policies that have been shown to work at the state level. Trump wants to make America look like Florida and Tennessee. Clinton wanted to make America look more like Illinois and Connecticut. Maybe that’s the real reason why she lost.”