I wanted to take my own political alarm system off and actually try and see how it felt to be them.Īnd actually, you know, I had an interesting experience with one of the first women I met. And what I really did was want to climb an empathy wall. In the end, over five years, I interviewed 60 people. OK, that’s where I want to go.” So, as luck would have it, I had one contact there, and I took it from there. In the South as a whole, as a whole region, it was a third. How many whites voted for Obama? In California, it was half. And where’s the super South?” And I looked at 2012. OK, older, evangelical-although not all were evangelical. Where’s the opposite end? I thought, “OK, the right is growing in the South. I’m Berkeley, California, teach sociology. And I figured, I want to get as far out of my enclave as I possibly could. And I was in an enclave, a geographic enclave, a media enclave, electronic enclave. What brought you to southern Louisiana?ĪRLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD: Well, five years ago, I felt we were already moving far apart and the right was growing. You’re a professor at University of California, Berkeley, a sociologist. Congratulations, Arlie.ĪMY GOODMAN: So, talk about why you wrote this book. It has just been nominated for an American-for an American Book Award. She spent much of the last five years with some of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters, researching her new book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. Well, today we spend the rest of the hour with the famed sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild.
Bannon was previously the head of the right-wing website Breitbart Media, which Breitbart’s former editor-in-chief has described as “the alt-right go-to website,” unquote. Trump has embraced the alt-right throughout his campaign, including by naming Stephen Bannon to be his campaign chief. During the debate, Trump’s online far-right supporters reportedly bombarded online polls in which the same user could vote multiple times in order to create the illusion Trump had won the unofficial polls.
… This year is different,” unquote.ĪMY GOODMAN: But Donald Trump has not lost support from some of his key constituents among the far right, sometimes known as the alt-right. The editorial board wrote, quote, “Since The Arizona Republic began publication in 1890, we have never endorsed a Democrat over a Republican for president. This comes as Arizona’s largest newspaper, The Arizona Republic, has also endorsed Clinton, making it the paper’s first time ever endorsing a Democrat for president. Today, former Virginia Republican Senator John Warner is reportedly slated to endorse Hillary Clinton. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: In the wake of Monday night’s first presidential debate, the establishment Republican Party and conservative newspapers continue to distance themselves from Donald Trump amid increasing accusations of racism, sexism, xenophobia and Islamophobia.
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