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ELI5 How did all these MAGA people get voted into congress? What did they promise they would do? and have they done it? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Articles like these place a lot of emphasis on the poor, rural members of MAGA, but there's not as much focus on the middle and upper class suburban contingents. People with pristine oversized pickups that have never left a paved road or hauled anything besides a new TV. That coalition as a whole needs to be understood to explain the rise of MAGA.

Also, I don't know anyone who talks about poor, rural folks like that article supposes, and I've spent my entire life in blue urban areas. That guy needs some new friends if his do. In my experience, they speak about poor rural and poor urban people the same way: either equally empathetically or equally condescendingly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

the middle and upper class suburban contingents

We can't call these people out as it would alienated the suburban trash vote both parties need. Dunking on poors in politics is an American sport. Both sides do it because who cares... Losers lose!