How much credit did she get for it? Zilch. “A lot of us in rural areas, our ears are tuned to intonation,” said Dee Davis, founder of the Center for Rural Strategies. “We think people are talking down to us. What ends up happening is that we don’t focus on the policy—we focus on the tones, the references, the culture.”[5] This becomes an all-purpose excuse that has almost nothing to do with reality; Clinton could have gotten down on her knees to beg, and they still would have accused her of having the wrong “tone.” But Trump, who couldn’t tell a combine from a corn dog? Does anyone actually
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