If 'White Rural Rage' Only Was A Thing
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Summary
MSNBC's Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski and Alex Blumberg are joined by political scientist Tom Schaller and writer Paul Waldman to discuss their new book, White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy.
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But it's the continued relentless attack on people.
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When they're in political leadership, it's wrong.
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When they're in positions of power at corporations, it's wrong.
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Now they're just being rural, presumably backward than out in nowhere.
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Joining us now, professor of political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Tom Schaller.
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And journalist and opinion writer, Paul Waldman.
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Their new book, Out Tomorrow, is entitled White Rural Rage.
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Peaceful country white folk and their vote is a threat because they might vote for Trump.
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The bar is so low with these people that basically they will probably try to criminalize people that vote for Trump.
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Why are white rural voters a threat to democracy at this point?
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Do you see how quickly, though, it went from being something with rage, presuming violence, to just voters?
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Joe Biden's background and Donald Trump's that the opposite would be true.
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I mean, we lay out the fourfold interconnected threat that white rural voters pose to the country.
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First of all, and we show 30 polls and national studies to demonstrate this.
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If they were racist, we would never have ended up in the place of where we are right now.
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Immigrant, anti-gay, geodemographic group in the country.
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QAnon support and subscribers, election denialism, COVID denialism, scientific skepticism, Obama
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They don't believe in an independent press, free speech, they're most likely to say-
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They're the ones who don't believe in an independent press and are censoring and wanting everyone
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They should be able to act unilaterally without any checks from Congress or the courts or their
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They're also the most strongly white nationalists and white Christian nationalists.
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No, unfortunately, much of what you get from the boomer, right, is this-
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Yeah, the Zionist, and then they're like, you know, MLK enthusiasts, and they're like, you
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There's white people that see what's going on, but they don't call themselves white nationalists
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I love how they just put Christian nationalism.
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They know that it's the majority of Christians in America are white, so now just Christian
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nationalism is basically white nationalism, you know?
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Could it be because you're just attacking their existence in the countryside and the fact that
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Well, it's like they poke, and they poke, and they prod, and they bash, and they shame,
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and they poke more, and they, you know, slap them in the face, and they're like, what are
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They are most likely to excuse or justify violence as an acceptable alternative to peaceful
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I know, it's funny, it's- every time it's the same thing.
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All the charges made against their enemies is things that they engage in every single
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Now, I do think that this is not a permanent condition.
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The craziness really comes from, almost more from cultural, ethnic issues than anything
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else, because you have a- a lot of the real craziness comes, if you like, from
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rural white Americans who feel that they're losing their country, they're losing ownership of the country.
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I mean, we are becoming more diverse, more multicultural.
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And they are, in the end, they are not the future.
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In the end, the power they still have will go away.
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So, the future is Mayor de Blasio of New York, but Ted Cruz of Texas is still out there with
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