her to quit?

If you don't want to read it, don't read it.

successful with Trump?

She spoke at a Children's Defense Fund gathering about wanting to "crawl up with a book forever after losing" or something like that. But no she didn't, instead she's out inciting sheeple to fight and never give up. Baaah!

The event was called Against the Odds, that is what the status quo thinks is okay, house odds against children growing up healthy means healthy tax write-offs for charity pros. They are gamblers, with people's lives, "that's the system".

Coal country plus federal lands.

I am actually more alarmed at the overwhelming Gubmint holdings in the West.

Why? For what purpose?

Most of that land has never belonged to anybody but the Feds under the USA. No conspiracies involved; most of that land just isn't suitable to be lived on, and the pioneers knew it.

Nonetheless, from State to State, the reasons why do vary. In Colorado, for example, much of those holdings are National Forests. They need to remain National Forests because if privatized, they would cease to be effective as watershed for the rest of the State. Under private exploitation, our once-forested mountains would start looking like those of Afghanistan, and our prairies would become like those of Wyoming (see below). The experience of the once-privatized forests of Nevada, now non-existent, has driven this. Colorado's forests are fairly fragile, and the mountains they grow on are the only real source of the all-important surface water which sustains the people and their livelihoods. And without the forests, those mountains lose their effectiveness as watersheds; less water falls to begin with, and less of it stays in the systems where we need it to be.

In Wyoming, most of the Federal holdings are never-homesteaded prairie lands with no surface water at all. They couldn't give these lands away under homesteading (i.e., prior to 1976) because of no trees and no surface water. Pioneer-age people knew that such land was only valuable for light grazing and mineral extraction; better and cheaper by far to lease those aspects from the Feds than pay taxes on property ownership. Plus, you can't live very long without surface water, as we're finding out the hard way today. The exceptions are such parts of Wyoming which are inhabited today -- less than 15% of the State. This scenario is also why Colorado, itself 50% Federally owned, has at least 8 Counties (Pueblo, El Paso, Douglas, Arapahoe, Jefferson, Denver, Boulder) which each have more inhabitants than all of Wyoming!

Nevada: Much the same. Alkali-ridden sagebrush prairies without surface water. Homesteaders and pioneers avoided such with good reason. And once the minerals were mined out, most of the privatized land simply reverted to the Feds, as the Counties had no hope of ever having those lands paying taxes ever again. Federal PILT (Payments In Lieu Of Taxes) was a better and more reliable source for County needs, so Nevada's Counties opted for it once the mines petered out.

You get the idea. East of the 102nd Meridian, the prairies were rich, plow-friendly lands with ample surface water supplies. During homesteading, farmer pioneers scarfed those lands up with a quickness. (Note Iowa and Illinois on your map.) West of that Meridian, surface water becomes scarcer and dryland farming (crop growth without extensive irrigation) is impossible, as we re-learned in the years between World War I and World War II. So it becomes obvious which prairies got homesteaded and which ones didn't. This situation was intensified after the passage of the Federal Land Management Act of 1976, which ended all traditional homesteading in the country. Land which the Feds couldn't give away they sure as fuck couldn't sell at market land prices.

Also, please remember that most Indian Reservation land appears as Federally owned under this map, even though they really should not appear as such (they rightfully belong to the Native Nations, not the Feds, but the Rez lands are "managed" by the DOI, so they show). The part of the continental/contiguous USA west of the 102nd Meridian is far richer in Reservations than the part east of it.