‘Morning Joe’ Guests Demonize White Rural Voters as a ‘Threat to Democracy’

yahoo ^ | 02/26/2024 | Natalie Korach

[ChicagoConservative27]

MSNBC’s Monday edition of “Morning Joe” featured an author duo who railed against white rural Americans as a “threat to democracy.”

Professor of political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Tom Schaller and journalist and opinion writer Paul Waldman joined “Morning Joe” to discuss their new book, “White Rural Rage,” while calling out the demographic for their voting patterns.

Cohost Mika Brzezinski asked the pair, “Why are white rural voters a threat to democracy at this point? You would think, looking at Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s background, that the opposite would be true.”

Schaller replied that they “lay out the fourfold interconnected threat that white rural voters pose to the country,” in their new book. “They are the most anti-gay, xenophobic in the country. QAnon support and subscribers, COVID denialism, Obama birtherism.”

The author also argued that white rural Americans continue to espouse “anti-democratic sentiments.”

[ChicagoConservative27]

Anybody that disagrees is a threat to democracy. These people would not blink an eye putting conservatives on trains.

[Tell It Right]

I don’t support democracy. I support the democratic republic with the emphasis on republic.

[pgyanke]

Nothing says Democracy like being threatened by people thinking differently.