"White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy" by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman

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"White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy" by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman

White rural voters believe our nation has betrayed them, and to some degree, they’re right according to the new book, "White Rural Rage." Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why rural Whites have failed to reap the benefits from their outsize political power and why, as a result, they are the most likely group to abandon democratic norms and traditions.Their rage—stoked daily by Republican politicians and the conservative media—now poses an ex…