"The result is a politics saturated in bitterness and bile, and a party whose most loyal voters don't expect their leaders to offer them anything but the ugliest kind of emotional satisfaction. Even when Trump is gone, in rural America he will still be king. And the rest of the country will suffer for it.”
~ Ibid.
Trump's hook: He promises white rural voters "restored dignity through dominance” (p. 140).
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