Socialism works well in the Eurocentric world of White where the people of those countries are happy to pay more to get more while here in White America we are unhappy to pay anything at all for OTHERS to get anything. Well other that deportation or prison. It seems to be crux of the matter.
Bill Mayer is right about the free college education business. Something I personally learned early on when I moved to Texas. DO NOT EVER MENTION YOU WENT TO COLLEGE TO ANYONE SOUTH OF THE MASON DIXON. Even as a minority party, the GOP will never allow their base to be forced to pay for uppity, elitist smartypants to go to college.
I am sure you have noticed over the past year that our divide is not left or right, urban or rural but smart and dumb. The Republican Base is fractured between Jesus, guns, militias and racism but the one thing they all have in common is they don’t like anyone smarter than they are. And with such a low threshold, even a Phoenix University dropout is suspect.