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Do you know any white people who live in rural areas?
According to two authors, those people are the most dangerous in the country.
Indeed, they are a threat to democracy.
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“White Rural Rage”
Leave it to MSNBC to trot out supposed “experts” to warn everyone about the inherent dangers of being white and living rural.
Tom Schaller is a political science professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Paul Waldman is an opinion writer. The duo joined MSNBC Good morning Joe Monday to promote their new book “White Rural Rage.”
And they say there’s all sorts of anger going on out there in the country.
Co-host Mika Brzezinski asked the authors: “Why are white rural voters at this point a threat to democracy? You might think, looking at the backgrounds of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, that the opposite is true.”
Schaller said he and his partner “expose the interconnected quadruple threat that white rural voters pose to the country,” in their new book.
“They are the most anti-gay and xenophobic in the country. QAnon support and subscribers, COVID denialism, Obama birthrism,” Schaller said.
It is unclear how these positions translate into opposition to the choice of our elected representatives, but they persisted.
He said he has a mountain of polls as proof of his claims and warned that rural white Americans continue to espouse “anti-democratic sentiments.”
“They don’t believe in independent press and free speech. They are more likely to say that the president should be supported unilaterally, without checks by the courts and the strongest white Christian nationalists,” Schaller said. “Fourth, they are more likely to excuse or justify violence as acceptable.”
Schaller said white rural voters became that way because of “troubled education systems,” “poorer infrastructure” and “lack of economic opportunity” in rural America.
“This left them open to someone like Donald Trump who would come along and tell them something true, that there is a system that has not served them well,” Schaller also said.
“They’re pissed,” Waldman said.
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Racist as hell
Could you imagine two “experts” going on television and warning, as a blanket statement, that inner-city blacks are overwhelmingly bigoted and dangerous? They would immediately be accused of racism.
And their accusers would be right.
But on MSNBC, such racially charged rhetoric seems to go over well, it seems.
As long as the targets are rural and white.
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