The main danger the alienation of rural/small-town Middle America presents is that this discontent will be marshaled by a Red Tribe revanchist like Tom Cotton or Ted Cruz, which seeks a Latin American-like caudillo,  and which is a much more dangerous situation than Trump’s neo-Nixonian implicit Rockefeller Republicanism.

Jordan Chariton, CEO of Status Coup, discusses his company’s road trip through parts of the rural Midwest.