In general, I think the left focuses too much on national politics, when a lot of the action is happening at the state level. So I want to discuss politics in Michigan, my home state since 1987. Ann Arbor is even more blue than Detroit, but overall Michigan is basically a 50-50 state. Trump won here in 2016 by 11,000 votes; Biden won in 2020 by 154,000. Democrats and Republicans have alternated in the Governor’s seat for decades. But the Republicans had a lock on the state legislature for 40 years, until it was broken in 2022, when Democrats won both houses and swept all statewide offices. I’ll explain how that happened in a subsequent post. Here I want to focus on rising violence within the Michigan GOP and its connections to misogyny.