This is one of many (many, many) bizarre things about Donald Trump (Donald Trump!) becoming the avatar (That Donald Trump!) of a rural backlash to status-obsessed international urban media elites (Donald! Trump!).https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/983830265461116930 …
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"Us rural folk know better than to trust some slick big city politician who thinks he knows better because he has a fancy degree." "I'm the smartest because I went to an Ivy League school and live in a gold penthouse." "Yep that's our guy."
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Rural voters correctly perceived Trump as being an agent of change from outside the political establishment. I don't think they were any illusions about his nature.
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Things are bad in rural America. This election was a measure of that despair.
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And yet millions of people did, and will again. We have to make headway against that beyond just calling them bad.
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