Posted on 02/27/2024 10:08:01 AM PST by packagingguy
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.”
“They don’t believe in an independent press, free speech. They’re most likely to say the president should be backed unilaterally without checks from the courts, and the strongest white Christian nationalists,” Schaller said. “Fourth, they’re most likely to excuse or justify violence as acceptable.”
Schaller argued that this is the case due to the “problematic education systems,” “poorer infrastructure” and “a lack of economic opportunity” in rural areas of the country.
“That kind of left them open to someone like Donald Trump who would come along and tell them something that was true, that there is a system that has not served them well,” Schaller said.
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Funny, we didn't even make it through 24 hours since "Christian Nationalists" were the greatest threat to our "democracy."
Christians, climate change, Putin, rural people, Trump, whites, men, white voters, transphobia, parents of schoolchildren, Jan. 6ers, we have so many "greatest threats" it's hard to keep the "greatest threat" straight.
The liberals have always hated America.
They just don’t bother to hide it any more.
Mika must have straight gin in that coffee cup she keeps grasping.
‘Morning Joe’ Guests Demonize White Rural Votes as a ‘Threat to Democracy’
I really couldn’t give a crap about what baby killing, deadbeat taxpayer, urban fags of color think of me and how I feel about their MARXIST “democrazy”.
Kulaks are the problem for the left. Time to eliminate.
Leftist logic: Can’t have voters around who vote against your preferences. That’s a threat to democracy.
The SOBs don’t mention that they are doing everything in their power to destroy rural Americans! Fires and now flooded out of existence!!!
https://californiaglobe.com/articles/klamath-dam-removal-its-an-environmental-disaster/
We are absolutely a threat to democracy, and will remain so as long as we are, in fact, a Constitutional Republic.
100% accurate. we are a threat to ‘their democracy’
they may not get their way.
gosh, how horrible.
Nor could I.
They want to get their way “by any means necessary” and call it “democracy.”
Democracy dies with Democrats.
Is anyone from the GOP going to speak up?
War on farmers, like Stalin before the Ukrainian famine.
Joe needs to take in some Venezuelan “medical students”.
I would rather see five white rural voters with AR-15s approaching me that ONE urban thug of color with a cheap Saturday night special walking up behind me.
Wear it proud.
At little his description is pretty accurate and proudly so. Except for the qanon stuff, because rural Americans are smarter than that
Potemkin “Democracy”.
Brought to you by the USSR lovers.
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