'A Desperate Lunge': Inside MAGA's Hold on Appalachia and Rural America

'A desperate lunge': Inside MAGA's hold on Appalachia and rural America

Retired Standard & Poor’s Director Jim Branscome has a theory for why Appalachia and rural America clings to Trump, and it has everything to do with exploitation.“What our [greedy] milk cows taught me on [my] mountain farm, [Ecologist Garrett] Hardin elevated into a principle that explains much of what ails modern society,” Branscome told Salon. Most English villages used to have a “commons”, a collective grazing area where everyone could feed t…

Why Appalachia clings to Trump

After failures from both parties, MAGA's rural vote is a "desperate lunge toward any alternative"