[image: image.png] Part one: Why rural white Americans’ resentment is a threat to democracy <theconversation.com/why-rural-white-americans-resentment-is-a-threat-to-democracy-224346> Rural white people have long held disproportionate power in US politics. But polls suggest their commitments to the American political system are eroding Paul Waldman is a journalist and author whose writing has appeared in dozens of publications. He writes The Cross Section <urldefense.com/v3/__https:/paulwaldman.substack.com/__;!!PIZeeW5wscynRQ!vTF-5imOQ-pX16iDI64aonyIVrZoihp1tRJMhzW2CKdhq4lySKSKgY5eSk7sCI_lXDHbZWn343aJYtYcqAWI6Q$>, a newsletter about politics and culture, and co-hosts the Boundary Issues podcast. Tom Schaller bio: professor of political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Along with Paul Waldman, author of White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy (Random House, 2024). Part two: Meet the Newest Apologist for Israel: Rear Admiral John Kirby <www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/05/meet-the-newest-apologist-for-israel-rear-admiral-john-kirby/> Melvin A. Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. A former CIA analyst, Goodman is the author of Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA and National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism . and A Whistleblower at the CIA . His most recent books are “American Carnage: The Wars of Donald Trump” (Opus Publishing, 2019) and “Containing the National Security State” (Opus Publishing, 2021). Goodman is the national security columnist for counterpunch.org. Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Project 2025,Paul Waldman, Tom Schaller, Rural voters, Democracy, elections,Mel Goodman, CIA, Rear Admiral John Kirby, Israel, Gaza, Hamas, Biden
