An excellent explanation of why rural White voters wield outsize influence in US politics, why they feel betrayed, and how the Republican party has used them to further its own goals.

In retrospect (I finished the book a while ago) Schaller and Waldman could not have done a better job of explaining why a small-town-Minnesota-high-school-football-coach-turned-congressman-turned-governor (turned very progressive governor) being tapped as Kamala Harris' running mate would short all of the GOP's circuits.