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MSNBC, Paul Krugman Panic Over "White Rural Rage"
Racket News ^ | 3/1/24 | Matt Taibbi

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnbc; deplorables; election; krugman; media; msnbc; nbc; nobrainscollectively; whiteruralrage
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To: CFW

The elites in their woke bubble believe we are inferior, dangerously stupid and destined for gulags after November, 2024.

“Waiting for the mailman to bring their teeth and the township plumbing project to reach them with indoor toilets.”

From an old Don Imus show.


21 posted on 03/01/2024 3:54:07 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: CFW

I live in the city and I am pissed off too


22 posted on 03/01/2024 3:54:12 PM PST by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind bweek.lows too much)
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To: CFW
Rural populists were depicted as dirty, bigoted, ignorant. They refused expert wisdom

We don't make that mistake here in DC. Can't figure out how to change a porch light-bulb? Post it on NextDoor Neighbor and the experts here are happy to recommend handymen and licensed electricians who can do this skilled task for a mere $160 visit cost as well as time and material for changing the lightbulb.

23 posted on 03/01/2024 3:54:58 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: CFW

Has Krugman ever told the truth?

None of his economic theories & predictions have ever become a reality.

Who pays this lying fifth column gas-lighting propagandist?


24 posted on 03/01/2024 3:55:26 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: CFW

White rural rage cannot happen, Krugman.
After all, leftists all live in cities.
Which generate no power.
Which grow no food.
Which produce nothing.
Which are populated by people with woke degrees.
Which are ruled by folks, most of which have never had real jobs.
So, there’s no way that those cities could be cut off and destroyed by those clueless barbarian white racists.
No, wait..........


25 posted on 03/01/2024 3:55:59 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: CFW

This is good to hear. They still don’t get it.


26 posted on 03/01/2024 3:56:08 PM PST by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: CFW

They are doing this because the Dems are losing Asians, black men, and union workers.


27 posted on 03/01/2024 3:56:12 PM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: CFW
“don’t believe in an independent press or free speech,”

Don't believe that an independent press should exist? Or don't believe that one does exist because the American media is the public relations department of the DNC? I fall into the second group.

28 posted on 03/01/2024 3:56:21 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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People bash Rural/White/Christians because it makes themselves feel better about themselves. They hate populism because they imagine themselves Elites but we don’t have elites we have highly paid puppets. Elites are suppose to have a bit of class about themselves.


29 posted on 03/01/2024 3:57:17 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: CFW

Christian Nationalism….. White Rural Rage…. What will they come up with next?!


30 posted on 03/01/2024 3:57:40 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: CFW

Ah. The new “Angry White Men” after the Dems got destroyed in Congress in 1994.


31 posted on 03/01/2024 3:58:12 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: CFW
“Why are rural white voters a threat to democracy at this point?”

A "threat?"

Apparently formika brain would prefer a illegal alien peasant living in a high rise homeless shelter (five star hotel) fresh out of china that signs 82 ballots on the orders of his CCP battalion commander "guide" as both formika and the CCP soldiers already here have no clue that the US is a Republic, not a communist outpost.

Formika's democracy is spelled c o m m u n i s m and with any luck it will destroy her.

I want her to see it coming from her comrades, not normal American Citizens.

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32 posted on 03/01/2024 3:58:31 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: CFW

Yes how wonderful for every extra $1 we lose due to inflation, Joe Biden gets 10%.


33 posted on 03/01/2024 3:58:34 PM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: CFW

Divide and conquer


34 posted on 03/01/2024 3:58:56 PM PST by DaiHuy (I support LGBTQ. (Lets Get Biden to Quit.))
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To: CFW

Did everyone get the memo on “white rural rage”?


35 posted on 03/01/2024 3:59:21 PM PST by Fido969
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To: DIRTYSECRET

👍👍👍👍👍


36 posted on 03/01/2024 4:00:23 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: CFW

Well, these fools are claiming that voting will destroy “our democracy.”


37 posted on 03/01/2024 4:01:18 PM PST by odawg
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To: CFW

Divide & Kontrol Komrade Krugman.


38 posted on 03/01/2024 4:01:19 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: CFW

Gee… I guess that means that Liberal Retard Rage is a Threat to The American REPUBLIC.

So we’re a “threat”, now…


39 posted on 03/01/2024 4:03:45 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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>> “White Rural Rage”

For how much longer will sanity tolerate the Progressives’ racist, divisive BS?


40 posted on 03/01/2024 4:04:17 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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