"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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"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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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/how-project-2025-became-toxic-and

"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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"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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"Unfortunately, while rural Americans could use the power they possess to improve their lives, they almost never do. That power is used only to maintain Republican control and stymie liberal policy advancement, even when liberal policy goals would directly help rural people themselves. …

In fact, as the rural population shrinks, their extraordinary leverage becomes even more stark."

#WhiteRuralVoters #WhiteVoters #RuralVoters #Republicans
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