In 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order creating the Rural Electrification Administration. A year later, Congress followed up with the Rural Electrification Act. By funneling federal funds through local electrical cooperatives, the government brought electricity to areas of the country where big power companies were not interesting in investing.
In bringing power to rural communities and individual homes across the country, rural electrification made businesses feasible in areas where they could not have bloomed before. The act made it possible for farmers to both farm and store more food. Rural electrification even fostered the invention of new technology that made the entire electrical grid more stable and made possible decades of growth. It was an indisputable good that, as a side benefit, also just happened to increase support for Democrats.
Which is why this tweet deserves both a huge cheer, and a serious apology.