I think the article in Politico is correct in that it’s not rural rage, it’s rural resentment. Those are two different things.
Of course, the leftists want to define it as rage so they can gather enough people who would like to kill the rural way of life.
If they succeed, it will be to their own peril.
Mostly agree. There are some key policy issues like Gaia worship that are really antithetical to rural people. ie they need oil for agriculture and they need cheaper gas because they simply have to drive much longer distances for everything....and public transport is not practical as everybody knows. So Democrats would have to scale back radically on that. But as much as anything, the divide is cultural.
Northeastern (and Left Coast) urban elites look down on rural people in the same way they look down on Southerners. They make no secret of it. Everything from "bitter....clinging to guns and religion" to "basket of deplorables" to spewing hate about the Confederate battle flag to screeching that they're all racists and sexists and xenophobes....oh and let's not forget homophobes etc etc etc. They're the butt of every "joke" on SNL or from the late night "comedians", to claims like this by a couple of Leftist wackademics. And on and on and on.
The hate could not be more palpable. But it comes from them - not from the objects of the elites' hatred. Everybody else sees it plain as day.