An excellent article.

Nope

The reason it's published at Cracked/Mad Magazine's website is because it's so dumb it's silly.

1st fallacy: nearly empty counties don't vote; people vote. If you want to see how PEOPLE voted in 2012, you have to look at a people-oriented map, like this one.

Fallacies 1 - 6: the election was NOT about rural vs urban groups; it was about dumbasses believing that a TV personality would clean the swamp (whereas he's been the worst swamp-scum to be elected to that position, after A. Jackson). The election was also HEAVILY promoted by Russia, AIPAC, Christo-fascist maga churches, Cambridge Analytica misinformaiton farms, GOP gerrymandering and voter manipulation, and much more.

Additional fallacies: city dwellers are so much better off than rural dwellers. Nope

Each point, 1-6, is a lie.

Was it easier to manipulate rural voters in 2012? Yes. Is that the main reason Trump was elected? Yes, in terms of the numerous manipulation tactics, lies and misinformation. No, in terms of "them country folk rose up and took back their country, dangit."

The fact that anyone would agree with this article at Cracked or elsewhere is informative of the continued influence of those lies on many new far right websites since 2011-12. Those who are benefitting are the .01%