Very Important Columnists Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman just released their book
White Rural Rage, about flyover Americans and their support for Donald Trump. They’re doing rounds through the Democrat media circuit to plug it. One of those fun little appearances happened on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
It’s hard to put into words just how delusional and dishonest the
segment was — as in, every single word. These highfalutin “journalists” have their heads so far up their own keisters, they wouldn’t know the honest truth if it introduced itself by name and punched them in the face.
Not only do the writers, who purport to be experts on Middle America, misunderstand everything about it. They also project Democrats’ nastiest and most conspicuous political impulses onto white, rural folks. It’s like the pot calling the kettle black — if the pot were actually white, racist, conspiratorial, anti-democratic, and violent.
“We lay out the four-fold, interconnected threat that white, rural voters pose to the country,” Schaller said with a straight face to Mika Brzezinski. In the author’s telling, rural, white voters are every kind of -ist, -anti, and -phobic imaginable, including “racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, and anti-gay.” They’re also mega conspiracy theorists, Christian nationalists, and anti-democratic. And to top it all off, rural whites “excuse or justify violence as an acceptable alternative to peaceful public discourse.”
1. Racist, Xenophobic, Ant-Immigrant
2. Conspiratorial
3. Anti-Democratic
White, rural voters also “don’t believe in an independent press, free speech,” adds Schaller. “They’re most likely to say the president should be able to act unilaterally without any checks from Congress or the courts or the bureaucracy.”
Hmm, remind me again which political demographic is working with Big Tech and corporations like
Amazon to ban books and censor dissenting political opinions under the guise of “misinformation.” Just this week New York Attorney General Letitia James — who is waging no-holds-barred lawfare to convict and bankrupt Trump in the Empire State —
urged Colorado to deny cake artist Jack Phillips his First Amendment rights of free speech, expression, and association.
As for freedom of the press, also this week, Biden’s FBI
charged investigative journalist Steve Baker with
four misdemeanors for his coverage of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Let’s play a little game. See if you know who I’m talking about: He’s a president who openly
ignores the courts when they slap him down, governs via
executive order and bureaucratic sweep,
ignores the Constitution and other established law when it doesn’t suit him, is currently
weaponizing the federal government boot his No. 1 political opponent off the ballot, and, in fact, is guilty of a worse version of what his opponent is charged with but has been deemed
too senile to be prosecuted. In other words, he’s above the law and anti-democracy. Hint: His primary voting demographic is not white, rural voters.
4. Political Violence Over Civil Discourse
I know Democrats are still high on celebrating their favorite national holiday: Jan. 6. But I’m sorry, was it a Trump voter who just self-immolated in front of the Israeli Embassy while screaming “Free Palestine”? Was it angry, white Republicans who lit Minneapolis, Kenosha, Seattle, and Portland on fire?
Is it rural white Americans in the headlines these days shooting up schools and churches — or
leftist gender goblins who want to get back at white “
crackers“? And how about the
more than 400 Catholic churches, not to mention crisis pregnancy centers, that have been attacked since the 2020 summer of rage?
We all know the answer.
Yesterday gifted good news to President Trump. But it was bad news for Axios, which ran its somber story under the morose headline, “
