The Redneck Menace
White Rural Rage is another attempt to blame the Democratic Party’s decline in rural counties on mean and bigoted white Americans.
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Eight years after the election of Donald Trump, #TheResistance resembles Moby Dick’s Captain Ahab: maniacally hunting Trump and his voting base at the expense of its own sanity. In polls, the former president is edging ahead of Joe Biden. Enter Paul Waldman, the former Washington Post columnist whose new title, White Rural Rage: The Threat […]