an evocative take on Trump ascendancy

It's too long if it doesn't get its hooks into you. It did get its hooks into me ... I found it touching in ways that most news analysts could only dream of being.

How the ‘Great Paradox’ of American politics holds the secret to Trump’s success.

In the heartland of the American right, people harmed by polluting industries have instead come to hate the government whose environmental regulations protect them. Now they’re voting for Donald Trump