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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 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.
sop
(18,585 posts)
blue-wave
(5,086 posts)You're just figuring this out now?
Boomerproud
(9,291 posts)I've seen this conversation before.
Arthur_Frain
(2,354 posts)Something, something, flip TX.
Something, something, gonna take back the house and senate.
Man Ive been hearing this for a long time, it never comes to pass.
BannonsLiver
(20,582 posts)Id be just as satisfied with a disengaged, checked out despondent and beaten down maga post Trump. Those kinds of people dont 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)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.