Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

by Arlie Russell Hochschild

And the more that people confine themselves to like-minded company, the more extreme their views become.

To attract outside talent for the private sector, it turned out, you needed a thriving public sector, for which the two-term, Tea Party–supported governor had drastically cut funds.

They defined as racist a person who used the “N” word or who “hates” blacks.

Trump allowed them both to feel like a good moral American and to feel superior to those they considered “other” or beneath them.