Claire Carlson, “Rural America Did not Push Donald Trump to Victory in 2024”:
This data speaks for itself: Trump won because Democratic turnout in the core counties of major cities crumbled. Yet the urban resentment toward rural America is back.
Also, see this.

@JohnBrady Yep. The GOP did not win this election. The Dems lost it. They simply did not convince people to show up. Which is mind blowing to me.

But still the rural turnout went up or stayed the same. What will it take for rural voters to not for a person like Trump? Have they ever thought about sitting an election out if not voting for the Dems?

@pratik Oh it would take something unprecedented to get rural folks to vote for Democrats in this era. I took the message of the data to be, “Democrats, your problem is not rural people. You lost millions of your own voters this time.”

@JohnBrady I wondered about that also! And, relatedly, what would be the inflationary effects of mass deportations?

@JohnBrady Let’s stop wondering and let’s sit back and dare Republicans to do what they promised. Then blame everything that follows on things they did.