Mitch-slapped

"I see them talking about China and things thousands of miles away, which, they’re not going to have a damned thing to do with," Mitch Daniels tells me.

Indiana is now 20 years removed from the beginning of its Mitch Daniels era.

The former governor led a resurgence of Republican rule so total that a Democrat hasn’t won statewide here since 2012, shortly before he left for Purdue University. Indiana Democratic Party Chair Mike Schmuhl said this year would mark “a referendum on 20 years of Republican adm…