Similar situation in Iowa, used to live in Wisconsin. Yes, you should be afraid. It's not about political or rural or people per se anyway. It's about bullying, money and corruption. The leaders will say it's about money or independence, but like Harley bullies, they all put on a uniform and a gun and the same armor(pickup) while crying about their individual right to bully someone or something to get what the marketers tell them to want. Marlboro Man addicts who will jump on any two word bandwagon ; and that's the liberals. The wingnuts don't even check if any of their beliefs are attached to reality: they don't have to because they're a posse now. With a Sheriff and everything to nod their heads to. None question the Competitive Consumerism dumbassery that is "The Economy, Stupid".

Those truck purchases fund the car dealers in state government reaching for federal appointments. Organic certified milk funds the pickle vendors with the same goal: to keep it all rolling along as though the basis of our country is anything other than Extraction Colonialism. To Hell with anyone in the way of the Profit Prophets of Progress.

Those Trumpers have no idea of the value extracted from them, and the corporate complex elected Trump to keep it that way. You start trying to explain the value of labor and commons and your Prius is likely to be bullied into a pancake. The trail of money and bodies goes directly from Trump back to Nazi gold, and the enshittification of social democracy along the way by corporate, government and academic dogs. Be ready to step out of the way as you have done while driving, and to lend a hand in disasters, but the brainwashed gladiators of this experiment will only be guided by their own folly in this System of systems devised by the mean Mean.