White rural voters hold the greatest electoral sway of any demographic group in the United States.
Yet rural communities suffer from poor healthcare access, failing infrastructure, and severe manufacturing and farming job losses.
Rural voters believe that Washington politicians have betrayed them, and to some degree, they’re right.
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 Donald Trump , MAGA Republican politicians and the conservative media now poses an existential threat to Democracy in the United States.
U.S. democracy has become vulnerable to rural whites who, despite legitimate grievances , are increasingly inclined to :-
- hold very racist and xenophobic beliefs
- to believe in wild conspiracy theories
- to accept violence as a legitimate course of political action
- to exhibit anti-Democratic tendencies.
“…I love my country , but not our country…”
This phenomenon is the Patriot Paradox of rural America.
These rural white citizens who take such pride in their patriotism are also the least likely to defend core American principles.
And by stoking rural Whites’ anger rather than addressing the hard problems they face, far Right Conservative politicians and MAGA talking heads create a feedback loop of resentments that are daily undermining American Democracy.
November 2024 is goint to be very interesting … 
