Currently, Trump & conservatives are demonizing cities, trying to blame them for the virus, & trying to prevent people from leaving -- not based on science, but on their longstanding hatred of cities & city dwellers. This kind of ugly hatred toward cities is just accepted. BUT...
... when the virus reaches rural areas, as it certainly will, the right will flip to complaining about how poor rural areas are looked down on & neglected. Democrats will be widely accused of "elitism," no matter what they say or do.
This is standard in US politics: conservatives are allowed to hate & demonize the cities where most of the people live & GDP is generated. But the dominant mythology is one of rural victimization. It's all projection and lo I am sick to death of it.
#Actually, cities are good.
