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Arlie Russell Hochschild
The 45th President of the United States appears in Hochschild’s book during his campaign for office, and specifically during his rally in New Orleans just before the Louisiana primary that he won. He was a Tea Party favorite and Hochschild’s Chapter 15 explores the affinities between his disregard for liberal feeling rules and the emotional self-interest of the conservative whites she met. Many Southern conservatives felt that, for the first time in a long time, Trump valued the endurance self and promised to give white workers the American Dream back.
Donald Trump Quotes in Strangers in Their Own Land
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Chapter 15 Quotes
While economic self-interest is never entirely absent, what I discovered was the profound importance of emotional self-interest—a giddy release from the feeling of being a stranger in one’s own land.
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In this passage, Hochschild highlights the enthusiastic energy at Donald Trump’s rally and how it works in his supporters’ emotional self-interest. As they gather around to affirm him and one another, Trump’s supporters experience a powerful feeling of collective effervescence and consequently see voting for Trump as a way to “hold on” to their elation. This phenomenon allows Hochschild to finally return to her original concern with political scholars’ analytical methods: while most focus on seeing the economic interests people have in voting for particular candidates, Hochschild thinks they tend to forget that people often ultimately vote on their feelings. Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Acc
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Donald Trump Character Timeline in Strangers in Their Own Land
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Chapter 15 – Strangers No Longer: The Power of Promise
...Republican presidential campaign rally and then asked her local friends what they thought of Donald Trump.
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Hochschild sees that “the scene had been set for Trump’s rise” for three reasons: white conservatives feared redistribution because their own economic situation was already...
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It is the day before the Louisiana Republican primary, and Hochschild attends Donald Trump’s rally in New Orleans. Supporters bus in from around the state and flood into an...
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Trump steps up to the podium and the audience starts a chant. He cites his rising...
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After the speech, people flock to Trump for autographs and photos. One approaches with raised arms, “as in the rapture.” And the...
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Hochschild calls Trump an “emotions candidate” because he focuses on provoking emotional responses from supporters rather than proposing...
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...A group organizes around a powerful shared symbol, or totem, which in this case is Trump himself. That totem unifies the crowd—Trump begins to consider his followers a “movement” and promises...
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Another important dimension of Trump’s emotional appeal is that he rejects “politically correct” standards of speech for the public sphere....
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...rules of political correctness created a “high” that conservatives wanted to hold onto. Sticking with Trump became a matter of “emotional self-interest,” a factor that many analyses tend to ignore in...
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On her last visit, about half of Hochschild’s friends in Louisiana backed Trump. Janice Areno and Donny McCorquodale were ardent supporters; Mike Schaff preferred Ted Cruz. Jackie Tabor,...
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Many Louisianans appreciate Trump’s business success, exhibiting a faith in capitalism that Hochschild contrasts with the turn to socialism...
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Chapter 16 – “They Say There Are Beautiful Trees”
...their lively discussions over dinner at Brother Cappy and Sister Fay’s—now, they are arguing about Trump, whom Donny supports and Mike opposes. And Madonna Massey throws a fit when her daughter...
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...the troops, but the group saw some tension “between those who would vote for Donald Trump gleefully and those who would do so reluctantly.” Sally Cappel and Shirley Slack are still...
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...wants to slash environmental protections, and rejects climate change—Mike was willing to vote for Donald Trump if he were to win the Republican nomination.
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Afterword to the Paperback Edition
...of Strangers in Their Own Land was published in September 2016, just months before Donald Trump’s election. In the following year, Hochschild returned to Louisiana three times to check in on...
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In September 2017, Trump stopped in Lake Charles during a trip to visit flooding victims in Houston. Although he...
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Hochschild wonders whether Trump’s policy agenda intentionally takes after Louisiana’s. Ultimately, Governor Jindal left the state devastated socially and...
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...Hochschild repeatedly visited Sharon Galicia, who initially favored Ted Cruz but warmed up to Donald Trump during the campaign when he called for keeping jobs in the United States and keeping...
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Lee Sherman has stayed in touch with Hochschild by phone. Lee adores Donald Trump, watches 14 hours of Fox News a day, and defends the president’s “right to his...
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...before celebrating their aid to Houston hurricane victims, even across racial lines. The Arenos favor Trump’s policies and specifically worry about their town’s influx of Mexican construction workers, whom they accuse...
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...mails one to her in Berkeley. (The line is a response to Hillary Clinton calling Trump supporters “a basket of deplorables” during the campaign.) Janice is “the staunchest of Trump fans,”...
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...like the Aryan Nation and the Ku Klux Klan” while others saw themselves as “alt-right.” Trump openly equated the white nationalists with the liberals who protested them by suggesting that each...
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...the South. After asking whether “white racism [is] the overriding source of support for Donald Trump” and the Tea Party, Hochschild suggests that many (but not all) of the people she...
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...local mosques that would teach sharia law.” But Hochschild notes that Mitt Romney and Donald Trump won the same proportion of the white vote and she concludes that “Trump’s election did...
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...and more.” In fact, Democrats’ “political bubbles” are actually more insular than Republican ones: more Trump supporters have friends who supported Clinton than vice-versa.
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...with surrender and empathy with weakness.” In fact, many voters went for Obama and then Trump; many Trump supporters—a quarter—felt positively about Bernie Sanders and some initial Sanders supporters even switched...
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