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Do you know any white people who live in rural areas?
According to two of the authors, these people are the most dangerous people in the country.
In fact, they pose a threat to democracy.
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“White Rural Rage”
Leave it to MSNBC to come up with so-called “experts” to warn everyone about the dangers of being white and living in the countryside.
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 Morning Joe on Monday to promote their new book, “White Rural Rage.”
They claim that there is all kinds of anger going on in the country.
Co-host Mika Brzezinski asked the authors: “Why are white rural voters a threat to democracy at this point?” You would think, given the background of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, that the opposite would be true.
Schaller said he and his partner “explore the four-way interconnected threat that white rural voters pose to the country” in their new book.
“They are the most homophobic and xenophobic in the country. “QAnon support and subscribers, coronavirus denial, and the birth of Obama,” Schaller said.
It is unclear how any of these positions translate into opposition to the choice of our elected representatives, but they continued to press.
He said he had a mountain of polls as proof of his claims, and warned that rural white Americans continued to embrace “anti-democratic sentiment.”
“They don’t believe in independent journalism and free speech. They are more likely to say the president should be supported unilaterally without checks from the courts, and the most powerful are white Christian nationalists,” Schaler said. “Fourth, they are more likely to justify violence as acceptable.”
White rural voters are that way because of “problematic education systems,” “poorer infrastructure” and “lack of economic opportunity” in rural America, Schaller said.
Schaller also claimed that “this kind of leaves them open to someone like Donald Trump who is going to come in and tell them something true, which is that there is a system that has not served them well.”
“They're angry,” Waldman said.
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Racist as hell
Can you imagine two “experts” appearing on television and warning, as a blanket statement, that inner-city blacks are overwhelmingly bigoted and dangerous? They will immediately be accused of racism.
And their accusers will be right.
But such racially charged rhetoric sounds good on MSNBC.
As long as the targets are rustic and white.
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