Bullshit. Medicaid helps regardless where you live, and rural people are probable on Medicaid to a higher percentage. Funding to keep rural hospitals open, pretty much helps rural people by definition.

Yes jobs are another thing entirely, but if you buy the bs that we’ll reopen coal mines and create thousands of new jobs, you’re just hopelessly lost and deceived. Those jobs were already gone. Consider the trends of over half a century of those jobs disappearing with automation, even when coal mining was increasing. Those jobs haven’t existed in this guys lifetime so there’s nothing to come back to.

He might also look around at the environmental destruction and consider whether he really wants that, to make some coal baron wealthy while creating negligible jobs.

There’s got to be a better way

• which party wants to build new energy source through the region, adding at least some jobs but as an investment in the future without the environmental destruction?
• which party wants to invest in infrastructure so you can get where you need to go, so businesses at least can function if they were there?
• which party wants universal broadband, bringing the knowledge of the world to everyone, remote appointments and at least a few people can remote work?
• which party tried to fund commercial investment, training investment, even knowing it would be a slog?

I still say they’re either low knowledge and gullible, or somehow believe destruction is better than trying ineffectively or starting on a long path