There is a chart that the Democratic Party-aligned Brookings Institution loves to put out after every presidential election. It shows the “candidates' share” of “GDP by county” for the most recent election. Right on schedule, just days after then-candidate Donald Trump beat Democratic rival Kamala Harris in 2024, Brookings published the latest version of its favorite chart showing that, all together, the 427 counties that Harris won “represent” 62% of the nation’s GDP compared to the 38% of GDP that the 2,633 counties that voted for Trump produce. In case the political message of Brookings’s chart wasn’t obvious, the accompanying press release spells it out for you. “Once again, a relatively small rural and small town economic order will wield inordinate authority over an economy anchored by big city metro areas,” the Brookings website reads....