This book about Trump voters goes for the jugular

Patient efforts to “understand” Donald Trump’s voters and their grievances have occupied frequent-flying journalists for almost a decade. The rules of those reporting trips, rarely violated, stipulate that the frayed vinyl booths in a thousand heartland diners in a thousand small towns are judgment-free zones.

Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman are here with a corrective. These voters, Schaller and Waldman write in “White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy,” are complicit, and the authors are in no mood to condescend to them. Someone write a new elegy for the bilious hillbilly, because these authors went for his jugular.