How a National Strategy Became a Losing Bet

Risk-averse approach to political investment became a gamble that went wrong

Today’s guest post is from John-Henry Heckendorn of the Rural West Project

Politics is bleak. You know it. I know it. And if you’ve looked at the maps lately, it’s getting bleaker.

Over the next few weeks, we’re going to examine how bad incentives, bad investment models, and limited imagination got us into this mess — and what the Rural West Project is do…