Thank you for High Country News in general and especially your recent article on the winds of change (“Pro-Trump riots won’t stop the winds of political change blowing in the West,” 1/11/21, web-only). As an Idaho Democrat, it is very helpful to hear this right now. I hope some of those winds blow this way, and we can build a coalition to do the hard work that Arizona and Georgia have done.

Gail Rankin
McCall, Idaho

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Winds of change

by Gail Rankin, High Country News
March 1, 2021

<h1>Winds of change</h1> <p class="byline">by Gail Rankin, High Country News <br />March 1, 2021</p> <p>Thank you for <i>High Country News</i> in general and especially your recent article on the winds of change (“<a href="https://country-survey-collabs.info/articles/south-extremism-pro-trump-riots-wont-stop-the-winds-of-political-change-blowing-in-the-west" target="_blank" data-linktype="external" data-val="https://country-survey-collabs.info/articles/south-extremism-pro-trump-riots-wont-stop-the-winds-of-political-change-blowing-in-the-west" rel="noopener">Pro-Trump riots won’t stop the winds of political change blowing in the West</a>,” 1/11/21, web-only). As an Idaho Democrat, it is very helpful to hear this right now. I hope some of those winds blow this way, and we can build a coalition to do the hard work that Arizona and Georgia have done.</p> <p><em><span class="s2">Gail Rankin<br /></span><span class="s2">McCall, Idaho</span></em></p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=187869">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">Winds of change</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/53-3/letter-to-the-editor-winds-of-change/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=121204&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/53-3/letter-to-the-editor-winds-of-change/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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