So, if 79% of rural voters voted for Trump in 2020, what did Trump do for them from 2017 - 2020?

[Samrob]

What did the GOP actually do for them? Do Dems ask them these questions?

[Tree Lady]

1. He gave them 3 judges that will for decades

Be making republican decisions. If he did nothing but that they will vote happily for him again.

[Aristus]

2. He validated their racism, bigotry, misogyny, misanthropy, backwardness, provincialism,

illiteracy, pettiness, small-mindedness, and all-around idiocy.

I guess if a loathsome con-man can make one feel good about being all those things, he doesn't need to do anything substantive to improve one's life.

[Irish_Dem]

4. +1

You are 100% correct! This is what he gave them and they adore him for it.

[IA8IT]

10. It's exactly what I see where I live.

[andym]

34. +1 nt.

[JI7]

35. Yup he gave them what they voted for

[Voltaire2]

36. He owned the libs every damn day.

We do not understand politics as performance, they do.

[0rganism]

3. SCOTUS seats to their liking, legitimized racism and misogyny in political conversation

among other awful bullshit
Just guessing but I'm confident there's a list they could assemble

[SoonerPride]

5. Owned the libs and said the mean hateful things they wanna say.

The cruelty is the point and they loved it.

[Celerity]

27. Trump voter: 'He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting'

I've seen plenty of memorable quotes from Trump voters, but "he's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting" is among the most striking.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-voter-hes-not-hurting-the-people-he-needs-be-hurting-msna1181316

[Celerity]

28. Trump voter: 'He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting'

I've seen plenty of memorable quotes from Trump voters, but "he's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting" is among the most striking.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-voter-hes-not-hurting-the-people-he-needs-be-hurting-msna1181316

[usonian]

6. HE OWNED THE LIBS

Oh wait, he didn't.

Got to clean up the horrible mess he left, though.

[Achilleaze]

11. But he did a fab job of FAKE Owning the Libs

And that was enough for the Fox-ingesting country folk to think that the Big City Casino Hustler squatting obscenely on a Republican Billionaire-Backed Gold Toilet Throne was actually on their side.

[usonian]

19. Cheer up, I hear that there are snakes in the pipes in Florida. nt.

[uponit7771]

18. +1, he was in the fight WITH THEM against their threat to their mental world

[RockRaven]

7. He hated, badmouthed , and hurt the people they hate, badmouth, and want to hurt.

That was enough to purchase their ongoing loyalty.

[keep_left]

8. He fucked them over with agricultural tariffs that continue to hurt them...

...and yet they'll vote for him again and again, because Drumpf hates the same people they do. Then Raymond Arroyo from EWTN can go on his moronic "World Over" show with one of the few "winners" who didn't get fucked over, a pork producer with property of the size of a collective farm, and they can rhapsodize about how wonderful their Great Leader is. Yes, that actually happened on EWTN.

[Devilsun]

9. Trump doled out huge farm subsidies to keep rural voters

To make up for the lost revenues for his idiotic tariffs. 🤨

[keep_left]

13. Yep. Forgot about that. Bribe (some of) the farmers, and the rest of us pay double...

...at the store. Naturally, a lot of the farmers still got fucked over. Because Drumpf doesn't give a shit.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/02/as-small-us-farms-face-crisis-trumps-trade-aid-flowed-to-corporations.html

[Voltaire2]

37. Hardly anyone is actually a farmer.

[abqtommy]

12. It's a waste of time to try to influence cultists. Their destruction politically and

financially are the only things they understand.

[Celerity]

26. +10000000000000000

[Kaleva]

30. And most of them live in urban counties

[nuxvomica]

14. I think Biden should make the Dept. of Rural Development cabinet level

That's where he's sent a ton of rural development funding but it's not so obvious because it's under the USDA. If he made it a cabinet-level department, his commitment to rural communities would be more obvious. Of course, Congress would have to do it but who in Congress would dare to vote against it?

[onecaliberal]

15. He let the fascist out of the closet and demanded the media treat them as normal.

[Novara]

16. He told them that racism is perfectly acceptable

Appeal to someone's biases and their hate and you have their loyalty forever.

It really is that simple.

Hillary was right - they're deplorable.

[onecaliberal]

17. She was far too kind. I'd be banned if I said what I think they are.

[uponit7771]

31. +1, he was their champion

[gulliver]

20. He created caricatures and cherry-picked people on our side for rural folks to resent

The rural folks don't know Dems. They know a false image of Dems. And it doesn't matter what we do for them if they don't know us.

[budkin]

21. Jesus and Freedom

He did them.

[EarthFirst]

23. He vocalized their putrid racist and xenophobic beliefs...

As fucked up as it is; that’s all they cared about.

[betsuni]

24. "Do Dems ask them these questions?" What does that mean?

Trump voters did not vote for him because of "economic anxiety."

[Tickle]

25. He allowed them to say

Merry Christmas!

lol
sarcasm

[Kaleva]

29. In MI, about 75% of TFG voters live in urban or mostly urban counties

TFG got as many votes in Wayne County (metro Detroit) as he did in all of rural Upper Michigan and much of northern Lower Michigan combined.

[andym]

32. Trump promoted their "values" which are often biased and narrow-minded

Those who hold traditional social mores and prejudices probably agreed with him more often than not.

[Skittles]

33. he hates brown people

and THAT is all they need