Ohio’s Lorain County, located along Lake Erie 30 miles west of Cleveland, is a textbook example of a region that has gone from riches to rustbelt. Because of the protracted deterioration of major manufacturing, a loss of jobs, and empty downtown storefronts, many consider it ground zero for the direction that the region—and maybe the United States—could go next. The road to the future is in voters’ hands, and it begins with the state’s May 3 primaries for the 2022 midterm election. Some believe that the seats in play are up for grabs for either political party—the Democrats or the Republicans. Others see the 2022 midterm elections as an important turning point because of the issues at hand that quickly emerged in 2021 and are continuing into this year: inflation, supply chain problems, high gasoline prices, workforce shortages, new variants of COVID-19, unrest around the world, and chaos at the …