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The Far Right Contagion - It’s not a Trump thing. It’s not a politics thing
(chadbourn.substack.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2025
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Good piece, thanks for posting it. This part really struck home.
I live in rural America. Trump and the right have a lot of vocal support in my area. But when I talk to people, leaving out names of politicians and parties, and just talk to them about specific policies, a huge fraction support policies that, if supported by a republican politician, would get that politician primaried so fast their heads would spin.
This article rings true to me in that all most rural voters know is that the system doesn't work for them anymore, so they will support anyone who claims to want to break the current system and restore it to what used to work for their grandparents.
This is true, which is why people should stop telling others not to point out how ineffectual Democrats are. If the left gave them a Sanders-like platform, which lays the blame for most of our problems at the feet of rich people, we could tap into that anger and use it to get some shit done. The strategy for the last 20 years has been to tell voters that everything is fine. That doesn't work when they're telling you "no it fucking isn't".