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In NYT Interview, Trump Lashes Out at Jeff Sessions, James Comey and Robert Mueller

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KGxvi7/20/2017 12:43:36 pm PDT

I guess it was only a matter of time until someone figured out how to monetize the demographic shifts that see conservatives moving out of blue states and into red states.

Fed up with life in the Golden State, the emailers wanted out.

So they turned to Paul Chabot, a 43-year-old Republican who says he’s discovered the perfect place for them: Collin County in north Texas.

He moved there late last year, bailing on his native California after a second failed run for Congress. In May, he started a company called Conservative Move, which aims to help other Republicans follow his example and escape blue states.

Its slogan is “Helping families move Right.”

Whether the company succeeds remains to be seen. The plan is to connect clients with real estate agents in red states — starting with Collin County — in return for part of the commission on home sales. So far there haven’t been any, though one is pending.

But in a sign of the country’s increasing polarization, Chabot has had no shortage of interest in his cause, having received more than 1,000 inquiries. The biggest share are from very blue California — very red Texas’ biggest political and economic rival.

I’m not going to lie, as someone with no intention of leaving California for anything other than a vacation, I don’t mind if this helps bring real estate prices down. From a less snarky point of view, it is troubling that so many people have found politics to be an important reason to move.