Earlier this week, Donald Trump named Sam Brownback as one of his “key advisors” on agriculture policy, including trade. Meanwhile, Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, became a significant author of the National Republican Platform. With the Kansas brain trust bringing their battle plan to the national Republican party, you’d think more attention would be paid to how this experiment actually works out. Here’s the cliff notes: hospitals closing. Lack of medical access. Schools underfunded. Budgets raided. Pay-day loan financing of state debt considered. Job losses. This is the Republican vision of the future. Sam Brownback called it his “live experiment”, with the canary dead, the rest of the nation can only point, gasp, and sometimes shake their head in laughter.
Source: Job Losses Mount in Kansas Jobs Report Disaster. The Republican Canary Is Dying.