"White Rural Rage"
According to these two academics who recently wrote the book on "White Rural Rage", white rural voters are the greatest threat to democracy and the country because they are the "
most racist, xenophobic, ant-immigrant and anti-gay demographic group in the country." And it's these these negative character traits that explain this demographics' support for Trump.
But it doesn't stop there. They go on to rattle off a whole litany of flaws about the people in flyover land such as:
- Believing in conspiracy theories like denying the results of the 2020 election
- Covid denialism and scientific skepticism ( "take the vaccine, you bigot!" )
- They harbor anti-democratic sentiments.
- They don't believe in an independent press (
but I'm sure interviews like this one will bolster rural voter's faith in objective journalism )
- They don't believe in free speech
- They're more likely to be white nationalists and/or Christian nationalists
And finally, they're the most likely to "
excuse or justify violence as an acceptable alternative to peaceful protests." You want gaslighting, MSNBC and these two ivory tower academics are here to deliver.
The Right and the Left really are living in two different realities. If you want a birds eye view into how the elites view your average rural voter, this interview shows the absolute disdain they have for the hoi polloi who have the temerity to disagree with their policies.