It’s one of life’s sick ironies that many of the people who suffer most under Donald Trump are his most passionate supporters. This shouldn’t be surprising: rural Americans enthusiastically voting against their interests has been the bedrock of Republican success for decades.
Deep red Trump-voting counties in deep red states have the highest poverty, lowest standards of living, and most reliance on social security in the nation. If this were a logical world, you might expect these people to support candidates with social policies designed to benefit them. You might have noticed we don’t live in a logical world, so these people are like turkeys turning out in droves to enthusiastically vote for Thanksgiving.
