"... The first thing you need to understand is that while rural Americans like to think of themselves as self-reliant, the fact is that poorer, more rural states are in effect heavily subsidized by richer states like Massachusetts and New Jersey.
"This reality makes it inevitable that the standard conservative fiscal agenda — tax cuts for the rich, benefit cuts for the poor and middle class — hurts the heartland more than it hurts major metropolitan areas. But MAGA’s Reverse Robin Hoodism goes far beyond the standard conservative agenda, in ways that will be especially devastating to rural areas and small towns. [snip]
"While many are now realizing that Trump’s policies will produce social
and economic disaster, relatively few understand that the disaster will
fall disproportionately on rural Trump voters. But of course it will.
For the purveyor of Trump bibles and Trump meme coins, screwing the
little guy has always been his personal style of grift. It remains to be
seen if rural Trump supporters will awaken from their naivete." -- Paul Krugman's opening and closing paragraphs in his Substack on why "MAGA Will Devastate Rural America." Krugman discusses in more detail the impacts of the MAGA Republican "reverse Robin Hoodism" on rural America, so be sure to read the entire piece. Our guess is that, while some MAGAts might "awaken from their naivete," the majority would rather walk around with nothing but a barrel covering them rather than admit their cult leader was a grifter and the one solely responsible for their misery.
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