Noah Berlatsky notes how the media keep using a stick they especially like to beat Democrats with, claiming that Democrats are disdainful of "real" American voters, rural heartland voters. But as he notes,
"Democrats struggle not with rural voters in general, but with white rural voters in particular. And white rural voters do not vote for the GOP because they are rural. They vote for the GOP because they are white."
#Democrats #white #RuralVoters #media
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Why Do White Rural Voters Vote for Republicans?
It’s the same reason white people in general vote for Republicans.Noah Berlatsky (Everything Is Horrible)
William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"It doesn’t, then, really matter what Democrats say to rural voters. It doesn’t matter even that Democratic policies (like support for rural broadband and rural hospitals) are clearly better than Republican policies. The key problem for Democrats is that white rural voters—especially white rural Christian evangelical voters—vastly outnumber POC rural voters."
#Democrats #white #RuralVoters #media #WhiteNationalism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"And white voters vote for the GOP because the GOP is a white identity party which promises to elevate white people at the expense of everyone else."
#Democrats #white #RuralVoters #media #WhiteNationalism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"There is an element of volkish ideology underneath the way the institutions have behaved towards [Trump], a widespread ideology of 'real Americanism' that is centered around an essentialist view of who gets to represent the nation."
~ Thomas Zimmer
#Trump #media #RuralVoters #white
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How Project 2025 Became Toxic and Exposed the Right’s Toxicity
Thomas Zimmer (Democracy Americana)William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"It assumes that Trump channels the Volk, and therefore is to be given wide latitude; as he supposedly embodies and gives voice to a populist uprising of 'regular folks,' his message is to be amplified; the will of the true people must not be impeded. Who wants to bring the hammer down on the tribune of 'real America'?"
#Trump #media #RuralVoters #white #heartland
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