re: New Book 'White Rural Rage'

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Paul Waldman

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Same for him. He sounds very independent and reasonable. You can tell he went into this book with no preconceived notions whatsoever.


Paul Waldman
@paulwaldman1
In case anyone thought I was exaggerating about Nazis in my mentions...no, I was not. Well done Elon!


Paul Waldman
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Check out the insightful column @paulkrugman wrote about White Rural Rage


Paul Waldman
@paulwaldman1
·7 Feb 2022
The key to the stories about Trump's serial violation of the Presidential Records Act is that he was repeatedly told he was breaking the law, but he kept doing it. Same was true of the Hatch Act. His whole administration's attitude was that obeying the law was optional.


Paul Waldman
@paulwaldman1
·29 Dec 2017
I'd like to thank Trump for giving me the opportunity to go on a little rant reminding everyone that the US Postal Service is a fricking marvel, and people's complaints about it are largely bogus.


Paul Waldman
@paulwaldman1
·24 May 2020
I'm getting pretty tired of news organizations saying "It's unclear whether the president has the authority to do this" when Trump makes some lunatic claim about something he says he'll do which he obviously has ZERO authority to do.


Paul Waldman
@paulwaldman1
·7 Jul 2021
"Why won't Democrats show more respect for working class Trump voters?" you ask, as Democrats beg them to be vaccinated against a deadly disease (for free), try to raise their wages, expand Medicaid, give them stimulus payments, increase their child tax credit...


Paul Waldman
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·23 Jun 2022
Just getting started reading the gun decision, but every sentence so far makes clear what a joke and a scam "originalism" is. It continues to amaze me that anyone takes it seriously.


Paul Waldman
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·7 Oct 2020
Frank Luntz on Fox just said his focus groupies concluded that Harris was "abrasive and condescending," by which we can assume they meant that she was a woman talking.


Paul Waldman
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·18 Apr 2023
Though I have been analyzing politics for a long time, I have to admit I did not see "Republicans embark on nationwide project to bring back child labor" coming


Paul Waldman
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·23 Jan 2019
I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama said that if he had a son he'd look like Trayvon Martin, and conservatives reacted with unmitigated rage because Obama had expressed empathy for the parents of a black teenager who was murdered.


Paul Waldman
@paulwaldman1
·25 Aug 2021
Joe Biden is a Democratic president. Which means:
1. He has to clean up a Republican's mess
2. He wants govt to do complex things
3. He gets held to standards no Republican has to meet


Paul Waldman
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·17 Aug 2020
At this point if you told me they were going to have the cop who killed George Floyd address the GOP convention from jail I'd barely be surprised.


Paul Waldman
@paulwaldman1
·5 Aug 2022
How is that family that buys 73 gallons of milk a week doing, have we checked in with them


Paul Waldman
@paulwaldman1
·13 Aug 2019
Maybe some super-rich Democrats could consider funding @staceyabrams 's national effort to protect voting rights at the level it deserves.


Paul Waldman
@paulwaldman1
·26 Sep 2020
Protip: When you call Amy Coney Barrett an "originalist" you're repeating misleading propaganda, because every conservative judge who says that somehow manages to find the intent of the Framers in every right-wing position they wanted to take anyway. It's meaningless.


Paul Waldman
@paulwaldman1
·19 Jan 2021
I've written about 1,500 columns about Donald Trump over the last five years.

This is the last of his presidency.

"Goodbye, Donald Trump. You were the worst of us."


Paul Waldman
@paulwaldman1
·11 Oct 2018
It's not often we get to watch an election being stolen in real time, but that’s what's happening in Georgia




Yes, you can count on his book to be an objective masterpiece of scholarship about white rural people.

Angry and afraid accurately describes most of the posters on this board.