Understanding Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV)
A reader offers this terse note: Manchin is a f***ing idiot.
Again, I caution against conflating stupidity with the recognition of stupidity in one’s electorate.
Manchin understands what his voters want: evangelical Christianity, racism, cruelty, indifference to education and the environment, and so forth.
He may be evil, but there is no indication that he’s stupid.