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The Bulwark Podcast

Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman: White Rural Rage

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Rural white voters wield outsized power in our democracy, yet they are also more likely to support violence as a political tool—and to nurture antidemocratic ideas. Meanwhile, rural whites enjoy the perk of being seen as the "real" Americans. Waldman and Schaller join Tim for the weekend pod.

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Tom and Paul's book

Transcript

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm going to do Miller. I am here

0:30.0

today with a couple of gentlemen who have a new book white world rage the threat to

0:34.4

American democracy it is Tom Schaller professor of political science at the

0:38.9

University of Maryland a former columnist for the Baltimore Sun and Paul Waldman journalist and opinion writer

0:45.3

he's a former columnist at the Washington Post the Washington Post misses you

0:48.8

Paul you had some good stuff over there how's everything going gentlemen.

0:51.8

Great thank you.

0:54.0

Great.

0:55.0

First off, for folks who have not heard you on your podcast tour,

0:58.0

give us the premise of the book,

1:00.0

what went into it, White Roll Rage,

1:02.0

and a top-line takeaway.

1:03.9

Maybe Tom, you can kick us off.

1:05.7

Yeah, so Paul and I have known each other for 20 years,

1:07.8

and as we were researching around and thinking about the Trump era

1:11.4

and the MAGA movement,

1:13.0

we started to look at some polls,

1:14.5

and we kept finding this pattern.

1:16.5

And let me just preface this because I kind of came out hot

1:20.7

on MSMBC with Mika Brijenski and say that what we find it doesn't apply to every

1:24.8

rural white American and it doesn't apply exclusively to rural white Americans in terms of the

1:29.9

threats that we discuss. But what we found, and we use very careful and

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