How the Democratic Brand Turned Radioactive in Rural America - The Ezra Klein Show

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President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard from red states into blue cities isn’t just a partisan attack; it’s also a geographic one. In the 2024 election, Donald Trump won rural areas by 40 percentage points. And you could see what’s been happening in Washington, D.C., and Chicago as a rural political coalition militarily occupying urban centers. The rural-urban divide in America has become so big it’s dangerous — for our politics, and for democracy. And yet, just a few decades ago, this divide didn’t exist. Urban and rural areas voted pretty much in lockstep. And for Democrats to gain power again, they’ll need to figure out how to win some of those voters back.

So how did the Democratic Party lose rural voters? And what could they do to win their votes back?

Suzanne Mettler is a political scientist at Cornell University and the co-author with Trevor E. Brown of the new book “Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy.

[Blues Heron]

1. They simply got dumber and dumber and then ivermectin level suicidal dumb.

All due to emotional brainwashing by relentless, professional propagandists like Limbaugh etc. Hate radio is a brain cancer.

[Henry203]

2. Gee what happened in 2008?

Any discussion without bring race into this discussion is useless. I sold Cash registers in MTG's district and much of rural GA. If you don't think race matters then you are clueless.There has always been a racist element in NYC. Trump is the Super racist.

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3. In this video, their discussion starts before 2008, that the urban-rural divide starts to take shape in the 90s

[Henry203]

4. Yes it did

but it went into overdrive in 2008 and Trump plays to racism. How much time do you think eitherof these people have actually been in places like MTG's district? I did for quite some time. Watch this.

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5. I've seen it.

[Hieronymus Phact]

6. Any discussion that does not include the vast, lying, propaganda apparatus is pointless.

Who cares about policy when they think Obamacare is free healthcare for illegals, and their kids might get a sex change operation while in the elementary schools nurse office?

Want to know what else changed in the 90's
Fox news and right wing take over of AM radio.