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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: The Old Hoosier

“Maybe we should have a vote on it?”

They want to have a war on it....


81 posted on 03/01/2024 4:58:11 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Salman

Feeling is mutual.


82 posted on 03/01/2024 5:00:09 PM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: CFW
As a white, rural voter, I can answer the question plainly and simply: We are a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy. To that end, I want to take their so-called “democracy” (because let’s be honest, it isn’t even that<\i>. I want to take that democracy, shred it into confetti, and consign it to burn on the brushpile of history where it belongs, never to be seen or heard from again. Succinctly: Damn their democracy!
83 posted on 03/01/2024 5:00:17 PM PST by cross_bearer_02
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To: CFW

I will address each of these one by one:

rural whites, he said, are the most “racist,”

nope, we are not racist at all, we want everyone to be judged by the content of their character not the color or their skin. Liberals are the ones pushing affirmative action racist quotas, and liberals are the ones trying to keep Asians out of colleges.

“xenophobic,” - not at all we love all people from all countries we simply wish those that want to come here to follow the rules and come legally.

“anti-immigrant - see above

and anti-gay,” - we are not anti gay, if some idiot wants to lick some other mans hairy butthole, I could care less. But they should get some mental evaluations and as for trans men “thinking” they are a woman... yeah.. that’s about as sane as thinking you are a tree! And stay the hell out of womens restrooms and sports if you have a penis!

“conspiracist,” - you mean like how GW Bush blew up the twin towers? or how Gore and Hillary actually won their elections? Or does it only count when conservatives take issue with elections?

“anti-democratic,” - not at all! we simply want to confirm that those who are voting are legally allowed to vote, are who they say they are and all the laws are followed. It is liberals who are trying to keep Kennedy off the ballot!

they “don’t believe in an independent press or free speech,”
we believe in free speech! It is liberals who try to shut down people who don’t use the correct pronounce when addressing the mentally ill

and are “most likely to accept or excuse violence,” Funny, liberals had no issue with violence when it was BLM, liberals had no issue with occupy wall street taking over the Wisconsin state capital for a month. But suddenly liberals care when some conservatives take some selfies in funny hats in the capital before calmly leaving when asked.


84 posted on 03/01/2024 5:01:13 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: CFW
Krugman needs to shut up.

When I want his opinion I will slap it out of him.

(Am I kidding or not? Only my hairdresser knows for sure!)

85 posted on 03/01/2024 5:02:27 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET; GOPJ; DoughtyOne
Nobel-winning columnist Paul Krugman

Meadow Soprano: The San Francisco area has won more Nobel prizes than anywhere else in the country.

Tony Soprano: Nobel prize for what? Packin' fudge?

86 posted on 03/01/2024 5:03:11 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Fai Mao

Whales a beautiful animals and have a function in the natural world. These folks don’t even clean up the scum on the bottom.


87 posted on 03/01/2024 5:05:47 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: CFW

White Rural Rage. Who’da thought? And here I was focusing on all these urban POC who are committing the lion’s share of violent crime in this country, when the problem was Jim Bob and his 2011 Ford pickup truck that has been the main problem all along...


88 posted on 03/01/2024 5:10:04 PM PST by fhayek
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Yep. Every morning when they sign in.I


89 posted on 03/01/2024 5:16:09 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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To: dowcaet

Yep. Ad hominem.


90 posted on 03/01/2024 5:18:06 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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To: CFW

White rural rage? Well duh. This will happen after you crap all over people for years.


91 posted on 03/01/2024 5:20:54 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: CFW

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92 posted on 03/01/2024 5:28:41 PM PST by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
SHARE IF YOU CARE!


93 posted on 03/01/2024 5:33:46 PM PST by Dick Bachert (not)
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To: Nervous Tick
The elite will still need landscapers, construction workers, sewage plant attendants, mechanics, programmers, and on and on.....

In other words....serfs.

"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor." Voltaire

94 posted on 03/01/2024 5:44:02 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Republican Wildcat
“Tom, I’ll start with you,” began Mika Brzezinski. “Why are rural white voters a threat to democracy at this point?”

Tom: "The serfs are revolting!"

Mika: "They certainly are.."

95 posted on 03/01/2024 5:46:46 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Dick Bachert

👍


96 posted on 03/01/2024 5:46:53 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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To: Salman

BTTT


97 posted on 03/01/2024 5:57:08 PM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: CFW
..... Well if the "Black Rage Defense" is still an acceptable Legal Defense spawned by the LA Riots ...... What can't there be an acceptible "Urban White Rage Defense" Spawned by the emergence of Legalized Hatred and Discrimination against Christian Conservative Caucasians in the New Enlightened Woke America????

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98 posted on 03/01/2024 5:57:39 PM PST by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: CFW

Interns are dangerous too, right Joe?


99 posted on 03/01/2024 5:59:57 PM PST by Trump_Triumphant
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To: CFW

Betting he doesn’t have a vegetable garden that forces him to face reality every day. Nothing like weather, bugs, and hungry critters to focus you on the difference between a weed and a carrot. Also makes you appreciate a fence. To quote my favorite rabbit, what an ultramaroon.


100 posted on 03/01/2024 6:01:05 PM PST by Waverunner
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