by Jeffrey Tucker
Daily Reckoning
In April 2020, I confidently predicted a political revolt, a movement against masks, a population-wide revulsion against the elites, a demand to reject “social distancing” and streaming-only life, plus widespread disgust at everything and everyone involved.
I was off by four years. It looks like the backlash may finally be here. New literature is emerging to document it all.
The new book White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy is a viciously partisan, histrionic and gravely inaccurate account that gets nearly everything wrong but one: Vast swaths of the public are fed up, not with democracy but its opposite of ruling-class hegemony.
The revolt is not racial and not geographically determined. It’s not even about left and right, categories that are mostly a distraction. It’s class-based in large part but more precisely about the rulers versus the ruled.