I am not usually a fan of "Can you imagine what would happen in X did Y, and Z would react." But, I want you to imagine this scenario with me. Suppose that instead of a Tea Party sweeping into power in 2010, we had a liberal wave. And now, let's imagine that Bernie Sanders became the governor of Vermont and a liberal house and senate enacted every liberal policy (free college education, single payer health-care system, raising minimum wages and raised taxes) that they could want.
And then, six years later, the state of Vermont was in utter ruin. Unemployment skyrocketed, the State turned a massive surplus into a massive debt, schools shut down, and pensions were cut. If that happened, would you want the Democratic candidates to answer questions about the failure of their model blue state failure? Would you be pissed if the media did not ask those questions? What if I told you that the Democratic candidates are proposing national tax plans that are predicated on the same failed models?
And yet, that is the exact scenario that we are seeing in the Republican Primary. Kansas and Louisiana now face a whole host of issues that are a direct result of the ultra-conservative economic policies enacted by their respective republican governors. And yet, the Republican candidates are proposing tax policies that relies on the type of "dynamic scoring" that consistently underestimated the cost of tax cuts in Kansas.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/gop-must-answer-for-what-it-did-to-kansas.html