In the year since the book’s initial publication, hardly a week has gone by without a fresh illustration of my central argument: that the politics that claim to make white America “great again” end up making the lives of the working-class white populations who support such politics harder, sicker, and shorter, and in the end threatens everyone’s well-being. Senseless tariffs, torn-up climate and nonproliferation treaties, nonexistent Trumpcare plans, and any number of other political actions and inactions filter down to affect the lives and livelihoods of many people, including President
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