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WBUR Podcast there, Jack. Hello, Megna. Episode 90. richer and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world we live in now.

Hello there, Jack.

Hello, Megna.

Episode 99.

I promise I will not start singing songs about 99 bottles of beer or balloons.

And instead, what I really want to know is your headline for today.

Okay.

Rural resentiment or the country strikes back.

Ah, the country is in the country versus the city?

Yes, yes, as in the country versus the city.

And resentiment, a fancy French word for really deep-seeded resentment, as the dictionary says, born of a sense of being powerless to express the feelings of anger.

This is all by way of introducing the disturbing findings of two political scientists in a new book, Rural versus Urban, the

growing divide that threatens democracy. Susan Metler and Trevor Brown, they document the new

master plot of American politics, the Republican domination of rural America, and through that, the emergence of minority rule.

Okay. So, I mean, this is something that you, in fact, have talked about before on the jackpot. What is it that in the book that you found sort of added more depth to something that people

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