Rural Dems Take Heart

The Harris-Walz ticket has some Democrats cautiously optimistic that the party is finally ready to fight for rural votes.

Four years ago, during the forced-online Democratic National Convention, I checked in on the livestreamed Rural Caucus meeting. It was not a very exciting presentation, as I recall; the theme, “Building Back Trust with Rural America,” was an implicit admission that the party was not working from a position of strength in that realm. They certainly lined…