I beg people who write essays like this to consider gender. I beg.
And I genuinely -- genuinely -- want to see how a rural lady candidate would do while performing the "toughness" signifiers. Split some wood. Ride a horse. Sort some pigs. Herd some cattle. Drive a tractor.
Danielle Kurtzleben
Spoiler: it's all gender. Apparently rural people crave more performative masculine signifiers.
After decades of alienating working-class and rural voters from the Democratic party, it’s time the left bridges the divide
