The Frontlines of Democracy - Part I: White Rural Rage with Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman

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🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Host Reed Galen is joined by Authors/Journalists Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, Co-Authors of, White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy. They discuss the anger and disconnect felt by white Americans in rural areas, the political tragedy of rural America, and why a comprehensive rural movement is needed to bring political competition and accountability back to rural America. Plus, our nation’s fascination with pickup trucks. Be sure to pick up White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy wherever fine books are sold. For more from Paul Waldman, check out The Cross Section and Boundary Issues. For more from Tom Schaller, follow him on social media. For more from Reed Galen, be sure to subscribe to “The Home Front”. If you’d like to ask a question or share a comment with The Lincoln Project, send an email to podcast@lincolnproject.us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Reed.
0:02.0	Before we get started, this is a quick two-part mini-series on where the front lines of
0:06.8	democracy really are in those rural and ex-urban areas.
0:11.5	Those places you always see reporters go to and talk to people and
0:14.9	diners, what's really driving the folks out there in the ex-urbs? What's
0:18.9	really going on in those places where those who once lived in cities or even suburbs have now fled.
0:25.7	I hope you enjoy it.
0:27.1	I hope you learn as much as I did by interviewing these folks.
0:31.0	And now on with the show.
0:33.0	Welcome back to the Lincoln Project.
0:41.0	Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Galen. Today I'm joined by
0:46.2	Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, co-authors of the recently published New York Times
0:50.4	bestseller, White Rural Rage, The Threat to American Democracy.
0:55.8	Tom is an author and professor of political science at the University of Maryland,
0:59.8	Baltimore County, a former columnist for the Baltimore Sun, and is written for the New York Times,
1:05.0	the Washington Post, and the LA Times.
1:07.5	He's also a regular television analyst of U.S. politics and has appeared on ABC, CBS, and
1:12.4	MS NBC.
1:13.0	Today he's coming to us from Charm City, Baltimore, Maryland.
1:16.0	Tom, welcome to the show.
1:18.0	Great to be here, thank you, Reed.
1:20.0	Paul is a journalist, an opinion writer whose work has appeared in dozens of newspapers, magazines
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