Academics have a bone to pick with the authors of “White Rural Rage: The Threat To American Democracy,” a best-selling book that argues rural voters — many of whom have rallied behind former President Donald Trump — pose a danger to the United States.
Journalist Paul Waldman and professor Tom Schaller are being accused of negligence by some of the very same researchers they cited in their book, which publisher Penguin Random House says is about how “rural Whites” have become the “most likely group to abandon democratic norms and traditions” with the encouragement of GOP politicians and conservative media.
Penguin Random House. February, 2024.
Nicholas Jacobs, a political scientist from Colby College, said in an op-ed published by POLITICO Magazine on Friday that his research and the work of others are “being misinterpreted and misunderstood.” The authors made …