NR: Liberal professors definitely don’t think they have more in common with bond traders…

CA: Well, that’s my whole frustration. That was the revelation I had over the last 2½ years. You have to view it from a framework of valuation and morality. And also culture, it’s not about economics. You have to use the old framework of is something banal or sacred? Is it profane or is it sacred?

I went to therapy for a bit, several years back. A very efficient waste of time (edit: in my case, and in hindsight, I mean. if you're thinking about therapy, you should at least check it out. ignore the stigma), but I did learn how futile it was to avoid acknowledging primal feelings and urges. It's generally a good way to approach a situation in which people have stopped behaving "logically".

A large hunk of America got spooked, and they exacted their revenge. I don't think this is going to end very well for the rural working-class family, despite what some of them may feel right now. They were duped. Our leaders have truly run many of us aground, but we do it to ourselves, too.