In The Atlantic, the ex-VP asks how we could have ignored as potent ground for Trump “the hopelessness and despair that has grown up in the hollowed-out cities and towns of Ohio and Michigan and Pennsylvania and the long-forgotten rural stretches of West Virginia and Kentucky?”
What he does not say, however, is that the utter neglect of these constituencies by Biden and the president he served fanned the toxic flames that fueled the Trump conflagration.