Rural America Is Desperate. It Is Also Part of the Democratic Base. Don't Abandon Them.

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105. I am not angry, and I am not acting foolish. I am simply pointing out an undisputable fact.

We all did our best to help these people who we are now being begged to help. We worked for their benefit, we voted for a platform that would truly have helped with economic development in both rural and urban areas.

They did not do the same. That is simply a fact. They enthusiastically embraced a con man, and they were successful in getting him elected. Then they enthusiastically pulled all the R levers below the one for the con man, and thereby guaranteed that they would be ruined. They did this against our best efforts. And because they were so successful in supporting the ones who will destroy them, we are now mostly powerless to do anything to protect them from what they voted for and what is about to come down on their heads.

Believe me. I am not angry. But the fact that the rural Trump voter joyfully and enthusiastically dug their own grave is not deniable. It is also not my fault nor the fault of anyone who voted for Hillary. If this particular history repeats itself, it won't be because of my actions. It will be because of theirs. This is simply a fact. And neither is it deniable that they took away any power we might have wielded in their defenser.

I'm not refusing to remember anything. I doubt any of us will ever again be in a position to forget what these people did. But they did this. It is done. In spite of all our best efforts, it is done. And it can't be undone.