Oh man the irony in what you just said...

> We have a habit of being kind of condescending towards rural voters, and the trend towards, 'you didn't have any agency, you were just manipulated into this' is uncomfortable to me.

The reality is that these "rural" voters almost surely have far more agency then any typical city dweller does due to the nature of the environment in which each lives, so it's just a fucking joke that Trump "duped" these "dumb hicks" into voting for him.

Psst...come closer...you want to hear the real reason he won???

H. Clinton was without any doubt the absolute worse candidate in the history of 20th and 21st century politics. period end-of-story.