When Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman released their new book, “White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy,” the publication was heralded by the usual suspects as MSNBC and CNN as the definitive and timely magnum opus confirming, once and for all, that redneck Trump voters living in the willywacks are a genuine threat to America, democracy, and pretty much everything.
There’s only one problem: the entire book is fraudulent, based on sloppy research, and the authors demonstrated a pattern of ignoring or misconstruing the opinions of the experts they consulted.
The shockingly bad attempt at popular sociology was first exposed by Bates College professor Tyler Austin Harper via a series of X posts and a lengthy article in The Atlantic.
The Atlantic article is paywalled, but Harper posted an illuminating X thread showing the problems, errors, and ethical lapses that contributed to Schaller and Waldman’s hilarious inaccurate and tortured book, which I’ll post below.
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The protective maternal archetype popular on the suburban Left is bringing the violence, not white male rural rage.
The Legacy Media is dead and has been for a long time. They just don’t realize it yet.
Imagine that! Couple of leftist frauds accusing whitey of all the leftist tropes. You gun totin, MAGA, tobacco chewin, beer drinkin, pickup drivin, flag wavin, citizens are the real problem in America. Well I’ll be!
And F them jooze in particular
These two should be barred from eating any food produced in by “white rage” farmers in rural America.