Rural America is losing its hospitals, its affordable housing, its farms, and its schools , not because of immigrants, not because of urban elites, and not because of woke ideology. It is losing them because of specific budget votes cast by specific legislators who then turn on Fox News and Newsmax to make sure you are angry at someone else before you can do the math. Fox News's own lawyers argued in federal court that their audience does not expect factual accuracy from their hosts. That entertainment product, engineered to generate outrage, is the single most important political force in rural America today. And it is working perfectly.
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