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Florida and Arizona are inextricably linked in Americans’ minds as the lands of baseball spring training and old retirees who hate welfare but depend for their standard of living on big government programs. But in political terms, the two states have headed in opposite directions in the Trump era. Florida, a classic swing state for the past 20 years, not only landed in the Trump column in November 2016 but appears to have evolved further in a conservative direction since Election Day. Arizona, by contrast, has traditionally been a considerably more conservative state, but Hillary Clinton outperformed past Democratic nominees there in 2016 even though she ultimately fell short. What’s more, given the personal conflicts between President Donald Trump and Sens. Jeff Flake and John McCain, t...

When Dwight D. Eisenhower sent troops into Little Rock Central High School to enforce the Supreme Court’s decision on Brown v. Board of Education, it was clearly an attempt to promote inclusiveness. He had experienced segregation, seen it’s effects permeate every social fabric of America and came to the realization that the United States would be better of with a more inclusive society. The 9 African American students who had been selected on the basis of excellent grades and attendance definitely deserved better than being escorted into classrooms by soldiers. The fears of those who opposed desegregation certainly have not panned out. Fast forward to 2018 just after the first African American president gracefully left the White House, there’s this open expression of nostalgia to ...