SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

WILL FOREIGN LEADERS HELP SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY? – FROM AP:  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president vowed Thursday to lead an international effort to combat what he considers censorship by social media companies that have blocked or suspended the accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump.  President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration is reaching out to other government to form a common front on the issue.  “I can tell you that at the first G20 meeting we have, I am going to make a proposal on this issue,” López Obrador said. “Yes, social media should not be used to incite violence and all that, but this cannot be used as a pretext to suspend freedom of expression.”  Amazing how we have to be lectured on freedom by a foreign leader.  Thank you, leftists.  You've done your bit in the destruction of America.

FROM BLUE TO PURPLE – FROM FOX:  The country’s blue state exodus is shaking up demographics in red states that are serving as landing spots.  States like Texas and Florida are seeing an influx of Democrats looking for more affordable, tax-friendly costs of living, turning these once Republican-strongholds into purple toss-up states.  Even before 2020, demographics in the sunbelt began to tilt driven by favorable financial perks and economic incentives that conservative states have to offer. However, those trends have accelerated amidst a pandemic-induced recession, and with more jobs now being able to operate via remote.
“West Coasters are going to Texas and East Coasters are going to Florida, and it’s no coincidence that Texas and Florida are red states that don’t collect state income taxes,” FOX Business’s Jackie DeAngelis told colleague Connell McShane on "After the Bell."  Clearly a danger for our side.  But what's wrong with these migrating dummies?  They leave poorly run Democratic states for much-better-run Republican states, and immediately start voting for the kind of Democrats who wrecked the states they came from.  Remarkable.

January 14,  2021