[Worship] Liberals attempt to understand Trump voters.

[Peg Clifford]

"There have been any number of books trying to explain to liberals the
mindset of people who voted for President Trump. One of the very best of
these is “Strangers in Their Own Land
<http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=pMJKdIFVI6rKtFy4slVtDzAfwTk1NBGwJUs9WJHz1uW1fzJMVaaux9axLhemhsMmkWtB5JPJA8M=&campaign_id=45&instance_id=529&segment_id=615&user_id=ff496774bfcc98ca279cd3b383438eaa&regi_id=54077773>,”
by Arlie Hochschild; I recently read it and really recommend it. Hochschild
is a Berkeley sociologist who writes respectfully, even warmly, of the
Louisiana voters she hung out with, and I think they will feel they have
been fairly treated as she captures their frustrations, concerns and
resentments."

Nicholas Kristoff New York TImes.

So I looked up the book.
https://thenewpress.com/books/strangers-their-own-land

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

   - *Arlie Russell Hochschild*
   <https://thenewpress.com/authors/arlie-russell-hochschild>

With a new afterword by the author and a new reading group guide

*The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became
a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of
Donald Trump*

*“A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Pa*rty. . . . This is a
smart, respectful and compelling book.” —Jason DeParle, *The New York Times
Book Review*

Finalist, National Book Award 2016
One of “6 Books to Understand Trump’s Win” according to the *New York Times*
 the day after the election

When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation
turned
to *Strangers in Their Own Land* to understand what Trump voters were
thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most
influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding five
years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party
stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the *New Republic*, “Hochschild is
fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive,
detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochchild’s ‘strangers in
their own land’ and a new elite.” Already a favorite common read book in
communities and on campuses across the country and called “humble and
important” by David Brooks and “masterly” by Atul Gawande, Hochschild’s
book has been lauded by Noam Chomsky, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, and
countless others.

The paperback edition will feature a new afterword by the author reflecting
on the election of Donald Trump and the other events that have unfolded
both in Louisiana and around the country since the hardcover edition was
published, a*nd will also include a readers’ group guide at the back of the
book.*




*"...indifference to evil is worse than evil itself,*
*that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible. "*

                               Abraham Joshua Heschel
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