Rural voters have long been a cornerstone of Trump's base, and any slippage in their support could have major implications for future Republican success.
Deregulation, making it easier for them to drive their barely running cars and trucks that drink oil faster than gas. Cutting social programs so that their taxes do not go to anything woke, only to subsidizing corporations and billionaires profits. Small government and tons of tariffs to make them commie <insert racist teen here> pay for ruining American industry!
Also a lot of rural Americans see city dwellers as the enemy, I grew up with a dad that thought that way.
But… Trump is the archetypical New York slick that rural America surely despises. So what gives?
Cognitive dissonance
Deregulation, making it easier for them to drive their barely running cars and trucks that drink oil faster than gas. Cutting social programs so that their taxes do not go to anything woke, only to subsidizing corporations and billionaires profits. Small government and tons of tariffs to make them commie <insert racist teen here> pay for ruining American industry!
You underestimate how easy that is to do in a city.
That’s true, I wonder where that came from.