Posted on 03/01/2024 3:30:54 PM PST by CFW
“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. When rural voters in the late 1800s defied New York banking interests and demanded currency reform to allow farmers an escape from one of the original “rigged games” in finance, relentless propaganda ensued. Rural populists were depicted as dirty, bigoted, ignorant. They refused expert wisdom, represented a “frantic challenge against every feature of our civilization,” and waged a “shameful insurrection against law and national honesty.” A populist caricature in Judge magazine showed a violent, destructive idiot, a real-life Lennie from still-unwritten Of Mice and Men, .....
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Nobel-winning columnist Paul Krugman of the New York Times spent the last year telling “ignorant” Middle America its negative feelings about the economy are “demonstrably false,” because despite what their bank accounts or home evaluations might say, “Bidenomics is still working very well.” When White Rural Rage came out this week he rushed to review it, the intransigent refusal of yokels to accept his wisdom being his favored current hobby horse.
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Krugman is the Adam Schiff of the media.
I’m calling that raciss.
They really want to kill us all.
Just stay in your filthy democrat big cities and y’all will be fine.😎
The opposite of populism is elitism, the ideology that asserts the governed are not qualified to choose political leaders from among their ranks and that the only legitimate political leaders come from an entitled, hereditary political class.
Krugman would be the first to scream names at anyone who made similar ugly general accusations about him; but he can blithely slur an entire productive group of very decent people and he has probably never met a single one of us. The man is a pig.
Call them names. That always gets people on your side.
Yup
BIGOTS!!!! CHRISYIAN HATERS!!! I just LOVE it when JEWS are ANTI-CHRISTIANS....UGH....DISGUSTING!
OOPSIE! CHRISTIAN HATERS!
US debt highest in history. Credit card debt highest in history.
It’s not just rural white people, Krugman and his ilk hate anyone who doesn’t agree with them.
“are voters a threat to democracy?”
No, Mika, voters are not a threat to democracy.
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That quote needs to be an entry in Projection Hall of Shamelessness.
The new buzz words and narrative.
MAGA
Christian Nationalists
White Rural Rage
Just goes to show that all the loyalists that infested NY and the surrounding areas should have been sent back to kiss the feet of the King. If ever a purge was warranted, it was after the Brits were kicked out of the country.
“Just stay in your filthy democrat big cities and y’all will be fine.😎”
Excellent advice for those on the left. I remember the riots of 2020 and the few occasions Antifa ventured into the outer suburbs planning for “mischief” They were quickly turned back.
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