The authors of “White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy” blasted the subjects of their book as “anti-gay,” “xenophobic,” “anti-democratic,” “pissed off,” uneducated supporters of former President Donald Trump in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” earlier this week.
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The program’s smug co-host, Mika Brzezinski, prefaced the segment with authors Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman by wondering why Trump got so much support from rural America when he “became a millionaire at 8 years old and didn’t have to serve because he claimed he had bone spurs in his little feet.”
The far-left Brzezinski asked with a grin, “Why are white rural voters a threat to democracy at this point? You would think, as we’ve pointed out, looking at Joe Biden’s background and Donald Trump’s, that the opposite would be true.”
Schaller answered that he and Waldman “lay out the fourfold interconnected threat that white rural voters pose to the country” in their new book and then dropped his first bomb.
“They’re the most racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-gay geo-demographic group in the country,” he began. “Second, they’re the most conspiracist group: QAnon support and subscribers, election denialism, COVID denialism, scientific skepticism, Obama birtherism.”
Schaller added that white rural Americans hold “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 any checks from Congress or the courts or the bureaucracy,” he said. “They’re also the most strongly white nationalist and white Christian nationalist. And fourth, they’re most likely to excuse or justify violence as an acceptable alternative to peaceful public discourse.”
Brzezinski asked in quite the elitist tone why the subjects of their book are “vulnerable.”
Waldman replied that it has to do with “problematic education systems,” “poorer infrastructure” and “a lack of economic opportunity,” most notably a great loss of manufacturing jobs.
“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,” Waldman added.
“They’re pissed off,” Brzezinski offered off camera.
“They are pissed off,” Waldman affirmed, noting that supporting Trump afforded them a way to “channel their rage and anger” and to “give a big middle finger to Democrats.”
Amazingly, know-it-all Brzezinski assumed that what white, rural Americans ultimately want is “to be rich.”
Schaller didn’t seem so sure that was accurate and noted that “they’d rather channel their rage.”
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