Concur.
I've been trying hard for some time now not to get suckered into giving a Christie article a click.
He puts out articles almost daily, and one is just worse than the next. Click bait trash, often stolen from regular posters and just repackaged as his own.
But this "article" is a new low. "Flyover territory woe is us," " poor Joe Mauer!," add in some politics to really get the readers going. Nothing but blatant, obvious attempts to get clicks.
I've made my last mistake on this author. I will not click another of his articles.