Reporter Salena Zito has become the voice of flyover America, its small towns and back roads, mostly in the old rust belt but other places as well. She goes to places MSM reporters never see, and talks to local folks about their politics, which tend GOP.
In today’s New York Post, she writes about the thousands of Trump signs she sees still posted across this heartland, some of them quite new. And about what they mean.
Whether I was on a gravel road just outside of Hannibal, Miss., or a dirt track in West Yellowstone, Mont., or on a neatly paved tree-lined neighborhood in suburban St. Louis, there were an abundance of signs and flags supporting the ex-president.
When I asked people why they were still putting their pro-Trump feelings on display, they all echoed the Proctors’ sentiments: It wasn’t about him, it was about them. It wasn’t about being unable to let go of his loss or their refusal to accept Biden as their president. It wasn’t about being “left” or “right” either. Rather, it was about insiders versus outsiders — with Trump supporters most definitely feeling like the outsiders.
And, with the midterm elections coming up next year, the Democratic Party should be concerned. Because, even after Trump’s shocking win in 2016, the insiders on the coasts, who dominate the nation’s culture and media, still don’t understand the people who voted for him.
Zito is a keen observer. There’s a Trump flag flying three miles down my own country road here in western Wyoming. It’s the same road on which you’ll see “Wyoming, the Way America Used to Be” proudly displayed; both reflect the same MAGA sentiment.
