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Not every town can or should be saved.
Airing the family's laundry can make people upset.
Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation's highest office.
My grandma - we called her Mamaw - loved her country.
My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
I have never felt out of place in my entire life. But I did at Yale.
The military is arguably the most significant social institution in our country.
What unites Trump's voters is a sense of alienation from America's wealthy and powerful.
Trump's voters loathe Jeb Bush because their lives are falling apart, and they blame people like him.
I'm a big fan of Purdue as an institution and in its role of educating the next-generation workforce.
Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my dad sitting around the dinner table.
I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas.
The factories that moved overseas used to provide not just high-paying jobs but also a sense of purpose and community.
It's difficult in the abstract to appreciate that those with morally objectionable viewpoints can still be good people.
Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.
We need to ask questions about how we're going to give low-income kids who come from a broken home access to a loving home.
The subsidy for employer-sponsored coverage has tethered health care to employment in a way that virtually no economist endorses.
My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.
The regulatory approach of the Food and Drug Administration and the Patent and Trademark Office has driven up the costs of generic drugs.
One of the things that concerns me is that so few people who go and get an education elsewhere... feel any real... pull for returning home.
I am proud of my service and proud of those who served alongside me. But war is about more than service and sacrifice - it's about winning.
Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.
The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.
If you're white working class, it's very easy to caricature the elites, and if you're elite, it's very easy to caricature the white working class.
I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.
It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
I went to Yale to earn a law degree. But that first year at Yale taught me most of all that I didn't know how the world of the American elite works.
Policies that promote better wages and better jobs would be super-helpful, and I'm a big fan of programs that encourage people to go where jobs are.
There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.
I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.
Faith gave me the belief that there was somebody looking out for me, that there was a hopeful future on the other side of all the things I was going through.
I eventually got to the point where I was like, 'Well, if I can't believe in the Big Bang Theory and be a good Christian, then maybe I'm not a good Christian.'
People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes.
One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living with rich and poor are living with poor.
People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
I happen to be a conservative, but one need not accept the Right's theories wholesale to acknowledge the sometimes negative effects of government action on health care.
At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.
In communities like mine, we send our best and brightest to our armed forces. Our culture's elites, on the other hand, encourage their children to do just about anything else.
When I started law school in 2010, I would have called myself an atheist. When I graduated law school in 2013, I was exploring my faith again. A lot changed in those three years.
At a pivotal time in my life, Barack Obama gave me hope that a boy who grew up like me could still achieve the most important of my dreams. For that, I'll miss him and the example he set.
We need to think about how we teach working-class children about not just hard skills, like reading and mathematics, but also soft skills, like conflict resolution and financial management.
From the Marines, from Ohio State, from Yale, from other places, people have really stepped in and ensured that they filled that social capital gap that it was pretty obvious, apparently, that I had.
If you had looked at my life when I was 14 years old and said, 'Well, what's going to happen to this kid?' you would have concluded that I would have struggled with what academics call upward mobility.
People listen to what their political leaders are telling them, and my view is both that Trump is tapping into some racially ugly attitudes, but also that he is leading people to racially ugly attitudes.
The transition after the Vietnam War to an all-volunteer force created the world's finest professional military. But it also reinforced geographic and cultural divisions that reveal themselves in our voting.
I think running a small nonprofit to work on the opioid crisis and bring interesting new businesses to the so-called Rust Belt - all of these things are valuable, if not more valuable, than running for office.
I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me... Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.