alienation

[Joshua N Pritikin]

"In his book Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others
Collapse, Timothy Carney makes the compelling case that the most common
explanations for Trump’s ascendance—the economy, for example—don’t get to
the root of things. He demonstrates that the people who resonated with
Trump’s message that “the American dream is dead” are those whose
communities lacked the social cohesion that binds neighbor to neighbor.
While voters cast ballots mostly along party lines in the general
election, in the early primaries, Candidate Trump actually struggled in
places where the institutions that are “the key to the good life”— faith
communities, vibrant civic organizations, etc.—already gave people a
strong sense of purpose and belonging.

http://podcast.strongtowns.org/e/tim-carney-alienated-america-and-the-rise-of-donald-trump/