MSNBC, Paul Krugman Panic Over "White Rural Rage"

Racket News ^ | 3/1/24 | Matt Taibbi

[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.

[Nervous Tick]

>> They really want to kill us all.

Kill most of us, and tightly control the rest.

The elite will still need landscapers, construction workers, sewage plant attendants, mechanics, programmers, and on and on.

And food. It is beneath them to produce it, but you bet your booty they still need it. And, mind you, not the bugs that the plebes will eat. No, they’ll be needing steak and lobster.

[Noumenon]

Looking forward to the Day of the Urban Non-flushing Toilets. Giant fun for the concrete box dwellers.

[Paladin2]

Starve Loser Krugmann out by putting up a blockade around Manhattan.

[realcleanguy]

Krugman and Democrats are the greatest threat to American Democracy.

[ComputerGuy]

Remember when those rural whites trashed Seattle?

[gunnut]

and the elites saying all of that is really going to sway their opinions….

[djpg]

Krugman considers “white rage” a threat, but antifa and BLM riots are just fine.

[MrRelevant]

Poor Krugman- lots of colors of people all over the country hate illegal immigrants silly. From NYC , to Chicago, to SF …. Legal citizens have had enough.

[citizen]

But Black Urban Rage is just fime.

[Fai Mao]

Lower than a whale turd in the Marrianas Trench

[freeandfreezing]

“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.

That seems like a pretty accurate summary of the typical liberal leftist to me. They pretend to be "pro-immigrant" but promptly bus any immigrants out of their neighborhood, think people who aren't white need their help to survive in society, and accept and excuse violence in their cities. And for all of their talk they are still anti-gay, ready to believe their own conspiracy theories, and are actively trying to subvert democracy.

Seems like a case of liberal projection to me.

[The Old Hoosier]

Everyone who wants to vote against Biden is anti-democracy. Which means...a majority if Americans are against democracy.

Maybe we should have a vote on it?

Their inability to recognize the absurdity of what they themselves are saying is simply astounding. These people are blinded by their own totalitarian tendencies.

[Republican Wildcat]

“Tom, I’ll start with you,” began Mika Brzezinski. “Why are rural white voters a threat to democracy at this point?”

Unbelievable.

These people are just crazy.

[Brian Griffin]

I was hoping to buy a ticket to Spain today.

The minimum price was up about $80.

Typical prices were up much more.

[RatRipper]

Krugman and his ilk feel entitled to slander salt-of-the-earth people and cheat them out of a decent living.

[CommerceComet]

Paul Klugman and the like are just now realizing one of the problems of democracy - sometimes, people don’t vote like you want them to. Apparently, gaslighting hasn’t worked so they are going back to insulting those who see through their BS.

[gibsonguy]

Krugman is the Adam Schiff of the media.“

Exactly right. A disgusting little worm crouching behind his laptop.

[maddog55]

Hopefully someone from either coast puts a bullet in that assholes head. Should be an easy target as swelled as it is.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#2: "Krugman is the Adam Schiff of the media."

The successor to Adam Clymer.

[Brian Griffin]

Traffic is much heavier in my part of Florida.

My neighborhood is filled with the sound of construction work.

My neighbors wanted to have their pool area floor painted. One contractor said his people were backed up until the end of April. A Honduran guy wanted $1100 - “they learn quickly”. My neighbors hired a white retired guy two houses away for $400.