Don’t sneer at white rural voters — or delude yourself about their politics

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Don’t sneer at white rural voters — or delude yourself about their politics

Signs supporting former President Donald Trump are displayed at a Second Amendment rally in Ionia, Michigan, on July 19, 2023. | Bill Pugliano/Getty Images What the debate over “white rural rage” misses. White rural Americans are a “racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-gay” authoritarian fifth column that poses an existential threat to our republic. Unless they are actually a downtrodden people who rightly resent the condescension of libera…