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marmar

(79,726 posts)
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 10:28 AM 9 hrs ago

The Hidden Backlash Against Trump in Rural America




Mar 30, 2026 #politics #lincolnsquare #democracy

In this conversation, Joe Trippi speaks with Iowa Senate candidate Josh Turek about how tariffs, farm foreclosures, and rising costs are reshaping rural America — and why some Republican voters are starting to break away.


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The Hidden Backlash Against Trump in Rural America (Original Post) marmar 9 hrs ago OP
TDRS is wearing off... sop 9 hrs ago #1
We tried warning you Iowa blue-wave 9 hrs ago #2
Wake me when they start voting Democratic. Boomerproud 9 hrs ago #3
Something, something, blue wave. Arthur_Frain 9 hrs ago #4
That's not the only thing that matters. BannonsLiver 8 hrs ago #6
More invisible and abandonned PATRICK 8 hrs ago #5

Arthur_Frain

(2,354 posts)
4. Something, something, blue wave.
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 10:48 AM
9 hrs ago

Something, something, flip TX.

Something, something, gonna take back the house and senate.




Man I’ve been hearing this for a long time, it never comes to pass.

BannonsLiver

(20,582 posts)
6. That's not the only thing that matters.
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 11:34 AM
8 hrs ago

I’d be just as satisfied with a disengaged, checked out despondent and beaten down maga post Trump. Those kinds of people don’t vote, which is the second best outcome we could hope for. The idea that anything short of converting every one of these people into Democrats represents a failure is short sighted and more than a little silly.

PATRICK

(12,388 posts)
5. More invisible and abandonned
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 11:22 AM
8 hrs ago

than ever. They lose contact with the whole American infrastructure and will be starving serfs on their own land until they bring more migrants in. No Post Office, no health care, no good schools, no voting power, no clean anything. The only people who get respect are the ones who fight back though the populist serf rebellions of past history had very bloody defeats. Their window of change is closing.

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