Now here is a subject that we could talk and discuss about for days even weeks and there would probably no consensus.
Was Trump’s rise to power a fluke or did he actually do some research and found his niche?
He was so unpopular in 2016 and yet he found a hidden well of votes that put him over the top from Clinton….and ever since people have been trying to find out what his secret was that lead him to victory…..and the question is today can he replicate his 2016 win?
Mid-America is the ‘forgotten’ demographic…..and this is where all our problems with our political system has originated.
If you’ve been watching television or tracking trending topics over the last few weeks, you’ve probably seen or read something about “white rural rage.” This is owed to the publication of a new book, White Rural Rage, by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, whose thesis is that white rural Americans, despite representing just 16 percent of the American electorate, are a “threat to the world’s oldest constitutional democracy.”
In an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Schaller gave this unvarnished assessment of the rage he sees overflowing in the heartland. Rural whites, he said, are “the most racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-gay geo-demographic group in the country.” He called them, “the most conspiracist group,” “anti-democratic,” “white nationalist and white Christian nationalists.” On top of that, rural whites are also “most likely to excuse or justify violence as an acceptable alternative to peaceful public discourse.”
This premise has triggered a backlash towards rural voters from some on the left. Amanda Marcotte, writing for Salon, said she’s tired of handling rural voters “with kid gloves,” and time has come to pop the “racist, homophobic, sexist bubble” they all live in. Daily Beast columnist Michael Cohen agreed, writing that “these aren’t hurtful, elitist stereotypes by Acela Corridor denizens and bubble-dwelling liberals… they’re facts.” David Corn, the D.C. bureau chief at Mother Jones, piled on, agreeing that “white rural voters [are] the slice of the public that endangers the constitutional future of the republic.”
This latest obsession with rural rage is nothing new. After 2016, when rural voters in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania put former President Donald Trump over the top, Democrats tried to figure out why they had gone so sour on the Democratic Party. Some liberal thinkers called out the left’s reflexive condescension and dismissal of rural voters that escalated during the George W. Bush administration and peaked with Hillary Clinton’s campaign and her dismissal of Trump supporters as a “basket of deplorables.” Some said the party should increase attention to rural issues and nearby rural communities.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/05/white-rural-rage-myth-00150395
Trump has tapped into the hatred, biases, and concerns of this sector….Dems have lost this sector even though the programs that are keeping rural America afloat were created by Dems.
Trump keeps feeding the concerns and biases of rural America and that could be very disastrous for this country in the coming election.
Tapping into the rage has made Trump an attractive candidate…..and a ugly candidate at the same time.
Hate-speak is a powerful political tool these days.
But can that attractiveness win over the majority?
What say you?
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