Long before the American flag gained its fiftieth star in 1959, Mark Twain famously described Hawaii as “the loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean.”

With the advent of the Trump era, the Aloha State has become something else, metaphorically speaking: a coal mine — if only insofar as state Rep. Beth Fukumoto can and should be considered a canary for Republicans from the Pacific to the Potomac.