The growth of population centers relative to small town America has created a huge problem for Republicans/conservatives.
A prime example of this Colorado and Virginia, once reliable red states turned deep blue by the rapid growth of Denver and the DC suburbs respectively.
The same thing is happening in Arizona, Texas, Georgia and North Carolina.
There is just a different belief system in urban areas as it pertains to things like multiculturalism and public spending.
Noah Webster tried to educate the nation on the dangers of Jacobinism -- the ancestor of the modern Democrat Party -- in his
American Minerva Magazine:
"I consider as a matter of infinite consequence the cautious admission of foreigners to the rights of citizenship. Numbers of them who have within the past year arrived and settled in this city come with violent prejudices against arbitrary government,
and they seem to make no great distinction between arbitrary government and a government of laws founded on free elections. Many of them are warm democrats; and the Emigration Society here is headed by Democrats of our own --
in short the opposers of our government are literally wriggling themselves into all sorts of company to carry their points. One main article of their policy is to attach foreigners to their principles the moment of their landing. If that system of creating a popular interest extraneous from the legislature to influence their proceedings -- that system of raising a multitude of isolated private clubs over the nations as its guardian -- should spread thro the country,
we may bid adieu to our Constitution. Our safety is in the country people, who more scattered and more independent, are out of the reach of demagogues."
It should be quite obvious why the Founders initiated the Electoral College and foresaw the peril of free Elections in big cities. We now see the fruits of Soros and the Obama years and decades of the "opposers of our government...wriggling themselves into all sorts of company to carry their point(s)."
Now they have the incalculable power of Big Tech and the media as well.
Also shows the gross failure of our schools: Were any of us taught anything about Noah Webster and why he compiled a dinstinctly "American" Dictionary?
What little relative "safety" we have remaining rests in the people who supported Trump, organized boat parades, lined the streets, and have rejected the Fake News media. The same people the Uniparty, media and Big Tech want to destroy by fiat.