That detail was an INTOIT moment for Laura Caspi. Learning about that policy and other details she heard about people’s lives here checked two of her biggest assumptions. The first was the idea that any vote for Trump must be a vote against the things that drove her own vote. “It didn’t enter my consciousness that they voted that way for reasons I hadn’t even considered, or for reasons that didn’t matter to me,” she said. “Our lives are so different . . . We’re not even playing the same game at the end of the day.”

