With apologies to Margo Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies, let’s just take a look around at how the summer has gone if you’re in a blue state. Now you could be in a blue state, meaning you have a Democrat as a governor, but you have either Republicans running all or part of the state legislature, and/or you could have Republicans running things at the local level, and things might not currently be so bad. But if you truly are in the belly of the beast, Democrats everywhere you look as far as you can see at all levels of government, this hasn’t been the best of summers.