Imagine it’s 2029. A Democrat sits in the Oval Office. Imagine that president’s budget office quietly begins slow-walking highway money to Texas. Imagine Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) disaster aid to hurricane-ravaged Florida gets tangled in a mysterious “fraud review” that never seems to conclude. Imagine the U.S. Department of Education tells Oklahoma, one day before it’s set to send payment, that funding for its schools is “under review” with no timeline given. Imagine a court filing later reveals that grants were pulled from red states “based solely” on the fact that voters there chose the Republican nominee.