Suzanne Mettler.
@smettler.bsky.social
Political scientist. Thinking about democracy, rural-urban divide, inequality.
Thank you for this generous post, @meredithconroy.bsky.social!
This was a great convo. @smettler.bsky.social is brilliant and here you can listen to her talk at length about an important topic - rural identity.
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
The Rural Power Behind Trump’s Assault on Blue Cities
The political scientist @smettler.bsky.social examines the roots of America’s urban-rural divide and how Democrats can win back rural voters.
open.spotify.com/episode/2zQ9...
youtu.be/M9bjypc1rS4?...
The Rural Power Behind Trump’s Assault on Blue Cities
The political scientist @smettler.bsky.social examines the roots of America’s urban-rural divide and how Democrats can win back rural voters.
open.spotify.com/episode/2zQ9...
youtu.be/M9bjypc1rS4?...
October 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Thank you for this generous post, @meredithconroy.bsky.social!
Thank you, @mattnelsen.bsky.social for this very thoughtful post!
I really enjoyed this conversation with @smettler.bsky.social about America’s urban-rural divide. In particular, emphasizing that Democrats should be consistently organizing—not just messaging—to rural Americans (and everyone for that matter) should be front of mind for the party.
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Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
The Rural Power Behind Trump’s Assault on Blue Cities
The political scientist @smettler.bsky.social examines the roots of America’s urban-rural divide and how Democrats can win back rural voters.
open.spotify.com/episode/2zQ9...
youtu.be/M9bjypc1rS4?...
The Rural Power Behind Trump’s Assault on Blue Cities
The political scientist @smettler.bsky.social examines the roots of America’s urban-rural divide and how Democrats can win back rural voters.
open.spotify.com/episode/2zQ9...
youtu.be/M9bjypc1rS4?...
October 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Thank you, @mattnelsen.bsky.social for this very thoughtful post!
Reposted by Suzanne Mettler.
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
The Rural Power Behind Trump’s Assault on Blue Cities
The political scientist @smettler.bsky.social examines the roots of America’s urban-rural divide and how Democrats can win back rural voters.
open.spotify.com/episode/2zQ9...
youtu.be/M9bjypc1rS4?...
The Rural Power Behind Trump’s Assault on Blue Cities
The political scientist @smettler.bsky.social examines the roots of America’s urban-rural divide and how Democrats can win back rural voters.
open.spotify.com/episode/2zQ9...
youtu.be/M9bjypc1rS4?...
Why Rural America Turned on the Democratic Party | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
youtu.be
October 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
The Rural Power Behind Trump’s Assault on Blue Cities
The political scientist @smettler.bsky.social examines the roots of America’s urban-rural divide and how Democrats can win back rural voters.
open.spotify.com/episode/2zQ9...
youtu.be/M9bjypc1rS4?...
The Rural Power Behind Trump’s Assault on Blue Cities
The political scientist @smettler.bsky.social examines the roots of America’s urban-rural divide and how Democrats can win back rural voters.
open.spotify.com/episode/2zQ9...
youtu.be/M9bjypc1rS4?...
My conversation with Ezra Klein on Rural Versus Urban, with Trevor Brown. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...
October 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
My conversation with Ezra Klein on Rural Versus Urban, with Trevor Brown. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...
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@smettler.bsky.social, co-author of Rural Versus Urban with Trevor E. Brown, appeared on @cnn.com this morning with @audiecornish.bsky.social to discuss her new book. next.frame.io/share/3e8b90...
October 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
@smettler.bsky.social, co-author of Rural Versus Urban with Trevor E. Brown, appeared on @cnn.com this morning with @audiecornish.bsky.social to discuss her new book. next.frame.io/share/3e8b90...
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Honored to interview Dr. Suzanne Mettler about Rural vs. Urban, co-written Trevor Brown. @princetonupress.bsky.social The book unpacks the current threat to democracy and how it can be repaired. A must-read for the moment at hand.
Dr. Suzanne Mettler on Saving Democracy Before it's Too Late
The divide that threatens democracy can be repaired. Rural vs. Urban shows how.
tesscallahan.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Honored to interview Dr. Suzanne Mettler about Rural vs. Urban, co-written Trevor Brown. @princetonupress.bsky.social The book unpacks the current threat to democracy and how it can be repaired. A must-read for the moment at hand.
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Thrilled that my copy of Rural Versus Urban arrived in the mail today. Big congrats to @smettler.bsky.social and Trevor Brown! I can hardly wait to read it.
September 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Thrilled that my copy of Rural Versus Urban arrived in the mail today. Big congrats to @smettler.bsky.social and Trevor Brown! I can hardly wait to read it.
Look what just arrived! Our book, Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide that Threatens Democracy, is due out Sept. 23. www.amazon.com/Rural-Versus...
August 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Look what just arrived! Our book, Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide that Threatens Democracy, is due out Sept. 23. www.amazon.com/Rural-Versus...
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I'll be returning to campus this fall as the inaugural Tony and Teddie Brown Associate Professor of Public Policy.
I am excited to have earned tenure at Duke and humbled to receive this specific endowed chair (more on that later).
I've been sitting on this news for a while now...
I am excited to have earned tenure at Duke and humbled to receive this specific endowed chair (more on that later).
I've been sitting on this news for a while now...
August 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I'll be returning to campus this fall as the inaugural Tony and Teddie Brown Associate Professor of Public Policy.
I am excited to have earned tenure at Duke and humbled to receive this specific endowed chair (more on that later).
I've been sitting on this news for a while now...
I am excited to have earned tenure at Duke and humbled to receive this specific endowed chair (more on that later).
I've been sitting on this news for a while now...
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In this @usnews.com op-ed, @nadiabell.bsky.social, @elianabuckner.bsky.social & Benjamin Sommers argue the proposed work requirements for #Medicaid and #SNAP in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" could cost millions their #healthcare and food aid.
Learn more. ⤵️
Learn more. ⤵️
www.usnews.com
May 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
In this @usnews.com op-ed, @nadiabell.bsky.social, @elianabuckner.bsky.social & Benjamin Sommers argue the proposed work requirements for #Medicaid and #SNAP in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" could cost millions their #healthcare and food aid.
Learn more. ⤵️
Learn more. ⤵️
In fact, those changes to the rules & procedures for Medicaid ARE actually benefit cuts...BIG cuts. The most vulnerable Americans' basic needs are being sacrificed to pay for tax cuts for the rich. Thanks @pamherd.bsky.social & @donmoyn.bsky.social for revealing it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...
Opinion | Republicans Will Use Paperwork to Kick Americans Off Health Care
www.nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In fact, those changes to the rules & procedures for Medicaid ARE actually benefit cuts...BIG cuts. The most vulnerable Americans' basic needs are being sacrificed to pay for tax cuts for the rich. Thanks @pamherd.bsky.social & @donmoyn.bsky.social for revealing it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...
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Reminder that the CBO says that if the Reconciliation Bill goes through:
-7.6 million people would lose coverage because of Medicaid changes
-1 million would lose it because of changes to the ACA from E&C
-2.1 million would lose it because of changes by Ways and Means
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
-7.6 million people would lose coverage because of Medicaid changes
-1 million would lose it because of changes to the ACA from E&C
-2.1 million would lose it because of changes by Ways and Means
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
Estimated Budgetary Effects of a Bill to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Title II of H. Con. Res. 14, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Budget on May 18, 2025
www.cbo.gov
May 21, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Reminder that the CBO says that if the Reconciliation Bill goes through:
-7.6 million people would lose coverage because of Medicaid changes
-1 million would lose it because of changes to the ACA from E&C
-2.1 million would lose it because of changes by Ways and Means
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
-7.6 million people would lose coverage because of Medicaid changes
-1 million would lose it because of changes to the ACA from E&C
-2.1 million would lose it because of changes by Ways and Means
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
Reposted by Suzanne Mettler.
CBO just released its own preliminary estimates for how rich vs poor are affected by the House budget bill. Roughly same conclusion: poorest get poorer, richest get richer.
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
May 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
CBO just released its own preliminary estimates for how rich vs poor are affected by the House budget bill. Roughly same conclusion: poorest get poorer, richest get richer.
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
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The GOP’s rhetoric isn’t as aggressive this time around, but their policy goals are similarly destructive.
The low-end estimate is $792B cut from Medicaid—with $370B of those cuts targeting the ACA’s Medicaid expansion.
They’re coming hard for both Medicaid and the ACA—and 10m will lose insurance.
The low-end estimate is $792B cut from Medicaid—with $370B of those cuts targeting the ACA’s Medicaid expansion.
They’re coming hard for both Medicaid and the ACA—and 10m will lose insurance.
It would be easier to believe all these Republicans who say they merely want to protect what they define as “the truly needy” if so many weren’t enthusiastic supporters of 2017 legislation to cut Medicaid for those very same people
May 21, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The GOP’s rhetoric isn’t as aggressive this time around, but their policy goals are similarly destructive.
The low-end estimate is $792B cut from Medicaid—with $370B of those cuts targeting the ACA’s Medicaid expansion.
They’re coming hard for both Medicaid and the ACA—and 10m will lose insurance.
The low-end estimate is $792B cut from Medicaid—with $370B of those cuts targeting the ACA’s Medicaid expansion.
They’re coming hard for both Medicaid and the ACA—and 10m will lose insurance.
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One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects.
It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.
The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.
It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.
The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.
Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle
After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.
news.cornell.edu
May 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects.
It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.
The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.
It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.
The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.
Thank you, @milophd.bsky.social for revealing the submerged state...so many valued services, but government's role in providing them is unseen. What will happen once they are gone?
“everyday information that is based on federal data, such as weather forecasts, "doesn't have a label that says 'brought to you by the federal government'."
And now we know it should! But it’s too late.
Anyhoo, we see yet again the usefulness of @smettler.bsky.social “submerged state” thesis…
And now we know it should! But it’s too late.
Anyhoo, we see yet again the usefulness of @smettler.bsky.social “submerged state” thesis…
May 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Thank you, @milophd.bsky.social for revealing the submerged state...so many valued services, but government's role in providing them is unseen. What will happen once they are gone?
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People will say this is the result of a presidential election, and that’s partly true. But the Constitution does not delegate tariff power to the president, and he is only able to impose these ruinous, peace-destroying taxes because Congress has let him do so. Congress can end this at any time.
April 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
People will say this is the result of a presidential election, and that’s partly true. But the Constitution does not delegate tariff power to the president, and he is only able to impose these ruinous, peace-destroying taxes because Congress has let him do so. Congress can end this at any time.
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Corey Booker: “IF AMERICA
HASN'T BROKEN YOUR HEART, THEN YOU DON'T LOVE HER ENOUGH." 💙🥹
HASN'T BROKEN YOUR HEART, THEN YOU DON'T LOVE HER ENOUGH." 💙🥹
April 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Corey Booker: “IF AMERICA
HASN'T BROKEN YOUR HEART, THEN YOU DON'T LOVE HER ENOUGH." 💙🥹
HASN'T BROKEN YOUR HEART, THEN YOU DON'T LOVE HER ENOUGH." 💙🥹
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The Trump Administration is trying to forge a personalist authoritarian regime and honestly the conditions for success are there. However, they're *way* out over their skis at the moment. Their pure recklessness is making their path to success way harder 1/x
March 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The Trump Administration is trying to forge a personalist authoritarian regime and honestly the conditions for success are there. However, they're *way* out over their skis at the moment. Their pure recklessness is making their path to success way harder 1/x
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What I learned at the Global Summit on Constitutionalism
www.cnysolidarity.org/2025/03/22/g...
www.cnysolidarity.org/2025/03/22/g...
What I learned at the Global Summit on Constitutionalism
I’m just back from attending the 2025 Global Summit on Constitutionalism at the University of Texas at Austin. This is an academic conference that assembles 300 scholars from around the world for t…
www.cnysolidarity.org
March 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
What I learned at the Global Summit on Constitutionalism
www.cnysolidarity.org/2025/03/22/g...
www.cnysolidarity.org/2025/03/22/g...
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The guy in charge of SSA is a mid-level manager, who's overseeing 20 percent of the federal budget, and yesterday tried to shutter the agency because he didn't understand the plain text of a court order. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
March 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The guy in charge of SSA is a mid-level manager, who's overseeing 20 percent of the federal budget, and yesterday tried to shutter the agency because he didn't understand the plain text of a court order. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
March 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
Professors, planning to teach a course about democracy? The American Democracy Collaborative is sharing our syllabi for courses in US & comparative politics! americandemocracycollaborative.org w/ @tompepinsky.com @povertyscholar.bsky.social
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY COLLABORATIVE
Research, Teaching, Dialogue
americandemocracycollaborative.org
March 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Professors, planning to teach a course about democracy? The American Democracy Collaborative is sharing our syllabi for courses in US & comparative politics! americandemocracycollaborative.org w/ @tompepinsky.com @povertyscholar.bsky.social
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🔉The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to cut 80,000 jobs from the Department of Veterans Affairs. For reporters covering these developments and what they mean for veterans and VA services, the following experts are available for comment. ⤵️
🔗Connect: scholars.org/features/2-e...
🔗Connect: scholars.org/features/2-e...
March 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🔉The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to cut 80,000 jobs from the Department of Veterans Affairs. For reporters covering these developments and what they mean for veterans and VA services, the following experts are available for comment. ⤵️
🔗Connect: scholars.org/features/2-e...
🔗Connect: scholars.org/features/2-e...