[Worship] Liberals attempt to understand Trump voters.

[Steven Meyer]

The Today's Issues group this morning discussed a very good article from *The
Atlantic *by Michael Gerson on this topic ("How Evangelicals Lost Their Way
- And Got Hooked by Donald Trump").  Let me know if you it forwarded to you.

Steve M

On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 6:49 AM, Peg Clifford via Worship <worship at fuusm.org>
wrote:

>
> "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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