Entire libraries worth of ink have been poured in an effort to understand, mythologize, and explain the behavior of white rural voters — why they are so attached to former President Donald Trump, and perhaps the ways that voters and politicians in more cosmopolitan areas don't understand the sufferi...
It’s because the people who cry about “identity politics” will lap up any bullshit excuse to make the rich pay their fair share as long as it’s flavored with jingoistic self-sufficiency or “family values.”
They buy it because it hurts the people they hate; it’s irrelevant if it hurts them too.