Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“Rural voters may be disproportionately dependent on certain kinds of government services, and their families often depend on income and benefits associated with government employment, but they are not left-wing radicals either as a matter of policy preference or as a matter of temperament. … Trump did not run in those counties as a socialist talking about income redistribution and intersectionality: He ran as a guy bitching about high prices at the grocery store. Rural America listened. And Trump, being Trump, has repaid rural America for its support by screwing over America’s farmers …. There are votes there in the countryside to be had by those willing to fight for them — they probably should not send the incoming mayor of New York City to do the asking, but one would think that would be obvious enough even for Democrats.” (11/12/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/rural-voters-moderate-spanberger-trump/