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Batya Ungar-Sargon

Q _ You interviewed working-class people across the country. What is the most significant lesson you learned from them?

A _ That you can love a country that has betrayed you. That you can love people who vote for the other party and support policies that you don’t. That polarization is a totally elite phenomenon.

Despite being incredibly diverse, working-class Americans are surprisingly united on the big issues, whether it’s abortion or immigration or equal opportunity or the need for better jobs and better health care. The problem

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