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New Book 'White Rural Rage'
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:17 pm
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:17 pm
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens—who are also the least likely to defend its core principles
'This is an important book that ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand politics in the perilous Age of Trump.'—David Corn, New York Times bestselling author of American Psychosis
In White Rural Rage, Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why rural Whites have failed to reap the benefits from their outsize political power and why, as a result, they are the most likely group to abandon democratic norms and traditions. Their rage—stoked daily by Republican politicians and the conservative media—now poses an existential threat to the United States.
Schaller and Waldman show how vulnerable U.S. democracy has become to rural Whites who, despite legitimate grievances, are increasingly inclined to hold racist and xenophobic beliefs, to believe in conspiracy theories, to accept violence as a legitimate course of political action, and to exhibit antidemocratic tendencies. Rural White Americans’ attitude might best be described as “I love my country, but not our country,” Schaller and Waldman argue. This phenomenon is the patriot paradox of rural America: The citizens who take such pride in their patriotism are also the least likely to defend core American principles. And by stoking rural Whites’ anger rather than addressing the hard problems they face, conservative politicians and talking heads create a feedback loop of resentments that are undermining American democracy.
Schaller and Waldman provocatively critique both the structures that permit rural Whites’ disproportionate influence over American governance and the prospects for creating a pluralist, inclusive democracy that delivers policy solutions that benefit rural communities. They conclude with a political reimagining that offers a better future for both rural people and the rest of America.
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Sir I dont know if anyone's told you this but you're white
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“Threat to democracy”
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When lefty bubble nerds treat their fellow Americans like Gorillas in the Mist.
'This is an important book that ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand politics in the perilous Age of Trump.'—David Corn, New York Times bestselling author of American Psychosis
In White Rural Rage, Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why rural Whites have failed to reap the benefits from their outsize political power and why, as a result, they are the most likely group to abandon democratic norms and traditions. Their rage—stoked daily by Republican politicians and the conservative media—now poses an existential threat to the United States.
Schaller and Waldman show how vulnerable U.S. democracy has become to rural Whites who, despite legitimate grievances, are increasingly inclined to hold racist and xenophobic beliefs, to believe in conspiracy theories, to accept violence as a legitimate course of political action, and to exhibit antidemocratic tendencies. Rural White Americans’ attitude might best be described as “I love my country, but not our country,” Schaller and Waldman argue. This phenomenon is the patriot paradox of rural America: The citizens who take such pride in their patriotism are also the least likely to defend core American principles. And by stoking rural Whites’ anger rather than addressing the hard problems they face, conservative politicians and talking heads create a feedback loop of resentments that are undermining American democracy.
Schaller and Waldman provocatively critique both the structures that permit rural Whites’ disproportionate influence over American governance and the prospects for creating a pluralist, inclusive democracy that delivers policy solutions that benefit rural communities. They conclude with a political reimagining that offers a better future for both rural people and the rest of America.
Replying to @paulwaldman1
Sir I dont know if anyone's told you this but you're white
@RantyAmyCurtis
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“Threat to democracy”
@JimDelRey
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When lefty bubble nerds treat their fellow Americans like Gorillas in the Mist.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:19 pm to Jbird
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In White Rural Rage, Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why rural Whites have failed to reap the benefits from their outsize political power and why, as a result, they are the most likely group to abandon democratic norms and traditions. Their rage—stoked daily by Republican politicians and the conservative media—now poses an existential threat to the United States.
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Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:19 pm to Jbird
This is how genocides start, and segregation continues.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:21 pm to Jbird
They’re getting closer and bolder regarding their targets.
Democrats want absolute power and the capacity to crush any possible threat to their absolute power.
And David Corn is a total shithead.
Democrats want absolute power and the capacity to crush any possible threat to their absolute power.
And David Corn is a total shithead.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:21 pm to Jbird
I'll look for this in the Fiction section.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:23 pm to Jbird
Nail/head. A bunch of dumbass rednecks have hijacked your party and that’s why it’s dying.
Most of you don’t see it because you ARE the dumbass rednecks.
Most of you don’t see it because you ARE the dumbass rednecks.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:26 pm to Jbird
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Tom Schaller
Thomas Schaller
@schaller67
Earlier today I took @EliseStefanik, the craven apologist for Jan6ers & phony carpetbagger "Adirondacker" who grew up in Albany but ran for US House from mommy and daddy's summer home in Willsboro, to the woodshed on WAMC/Albany.
Thomas Schaller
@schaller67
The incomparable @paulkrugman of @nytimes discusses White Rural Rage, my new book
Thomas Schaller
@schaller67
I’m glad Trump is installing daughter in law Lara to help him fleece the RNC to pay his legal bills. It’s what the party asked for…and deserves.
He seems very open minded and objective. You can expect his book to be a facts only driven, independent analysis.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:27 pm to Jbird
He's not wrong.... Pretty sad actually
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:27 pm to Jbird
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The citizens who take such pride in their patriotism are also the least likely to defend core American principles.
Do they mean core American principles bastardized by marxists and defined by woke liberal lunatics?
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:33 pm to Jbird
Every time I see something like this it's sad. This rhetoric turns people against each other. I doubt there's a group of people anywhere in the world with a higher guns per house hold than in rural America.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:34 pm to Jbird
They are Gaslighting us crackers who pay for everything.
This may be the worst period of history to be a white Christian male.
If i could go back in time and do one thing, I’d UNDO the entire slave deal.
Literally, that’s the one thing I’d do.
And the crazy thing is, the same anti-white “fake Jews” that are running things are the same ones in charge today.
Only God can save us from this evil… white Christian males have targets on our backs.
This may be the worst period of history to be a white Christian male.
If i could go back in time and do one thing, I’d UNDO the entire slave deal.
Literally, that’s the one thing I’d do.
And the crazy thing is, the same anti-white “fake Jews” that are running things are the same ones in charge today.
Only God can save us from this evil… white Christian males have targets on our backs.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:42 pm to Jbird
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'This is an important book that ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand politics in the perilous Age of Trump.'—David Corn, New York Times bestselling author of American Psychosis
David Corn is a communist who published Mother Jones.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:45 pm to Jbird
I'll proudly take insults from the party who hate the 1st and 2nd Amendments and thinks it's cruel to deny children sex change procedures.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:45 pm to Jbird
Typical, a couple of secular, self loathing, non practicing jews...write a book demonizing whites.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:47 pm to Jbird
"Despite legitimate grievances ', we're a bunch of ignorant crackers.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:47 pm to Jbird
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abandon democratic norms and traditions
the battle of definitions begins.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:58 pm to Jbird
Cool cool... Now, is it okay if I write a book about how 13% of the population and their unhinged, lawless and hyper-violent behavior, their disdain for work, education, American values and America in general, is the scurge and downfall of our society?
I doubt that would be okay.
I doubt that would be okay.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 1:41 pm to Jbird
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Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman
Posted on 2/28/24 at 1:48 pm to Jbird
The Democrats are transforming lots of decent, hard working people who just want to be left alone into an Army of people with nothing to lose.
That might not benefit them in the long run.
That might not benefit them in the long run.
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