MSNBC, Paul Krugman Panic Over "White Rural Rage"

independentthinker · Mar 5, 2024

Lil Mike said: ↑

I have to say, I found this Morning Joe segment hilarious! I don't think there is a better representation of the cluelessness of the establishment, managerial class. Matt Taibbi lays it all out for my entertainment.

MSNBC, Paul Krugman Panic Over "White Rural Rage"

“Tom, I’ll start with you,” began Mika Brzezinski. “Why are rural white voters a threat to democracy at this point?”

Fastball delivered, University of Maryland professor and co-author of just-released White Rural Rage: The Threat To American Democracy Tom Schaller took a swing. He and Mika first complained rural voters should be supporting Joe Biden, given his roots — you’d have to be pretty high to call Scranton “rural,” but whatever — then Schaller read off small town America’s charge sheet: rural whites, he said, are the most “racist,” “xenophobic,” “anti-immigrant and anti-gay,” “conspiracist,” “anti-democratic,” they “don’t believe in an independent press or free speech,” and are “most likely to accept or excuse violence,” for starters.

White Rural Rage, which I made the mistake of reading, is a vicious manifesto in the anti-populist tradition nailed by Thomas Frank in The People, No.
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Yes, we can't have white people screwing up democracy by voting.

garyd · Mar 5, 2024

The funny thing is that Biden was never going to win the people he didn't win last time but he is shedding his supporter from last time in droves and he is doing nothing to win them back.

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