It doesn’t matter why anyone voted for the president in 2016 if they still support him now.
Trump supporters
Posted inFeatured, Politics
What Dollar Stores Tell Us About Electoral Politics
Trump overwhelmingly won in small towns and rural areas. Here’s why that might be changing.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal
How Trump Adopted Nixon’s Southern Strategy
The president’s ‘base’ didn’t come from nowhere.
Posted inBooks, Featured, July/August 2018, Magazine
United We Fall
The more homogenous the parties become, the uglier the divide between them.
Posted inPolitical Animal
How to Talk to a Trump Voter
An embrace of empathy and avoidance of shame are not enough.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2017
What J. D. Vance Doesn’t Get About Appalachia
A new history shows how Big Coal created a culture of dependence.
Posted inFeatured, Politics
The Republican Party Has No Heart
The party’s dog-eat-dog mentality threatens our democracy.
Posted inEconomy, Featured
This County Was a Democratic Stronghold. Then Came Trump.
The story of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania reflects the uphill battle of winning back Trump supporters.
Posted inPolitical Animal
A Flaw in Too Much of Our Political Analysis: The Default Is White
Understanding why working class Hispanics vote differently than working class whites opens up whole new avenues of inquiry.
Posted inRepublic 3.0
This Local Government Innovation Could Help Cure Trumpism
A process called “participatory budgeting” is a potentially powerful way to combat the anti-government, anti-elite furor that Trump has harnessed.
