Derek Thompson

We know the people who live around us less. And one reason why I think that matters a lot for politics is being around people who aren't our family and don't share all of our ideological preferences like our echo chambers do, being around people that are around us but different I think, is a naturally moderating instinct.

We know the people who live around us less. And one reason why I think that matters a lot for politics is being around people who aren't our family and don't share all of our ideological preferences like our echo chambers do, being around people that are around us but different I think, is a naturally moderating instinct.

It allows us to see people who are different than us as human and reasonable and having their own set of interests and sometimes even sharing our own interests, recognizing that the person who's voting for a candidate you consider heinous actually shares many of your key priorities. That's moderating.

It allows us to see people who are different than us as human and reasonable and having their own set of interests and sometimes even sharing our own interests, recognizing that the person who's voting for a candidate you consider heinous actually shares many of your key priorities. That's moderating.

It allows us to see people who are different than us as human and reasonable and having their own set of interests and sometimes even sharing our own interests, recognizing that the person who's voting for a candidate you consider heinous actually shares many of your key priorities. That's moderating.

In a world without that cooling agent, you get people like Donald Trump, who I think is a classic all-tribe, no-village avatar.

In a world without that cooling agent, you get people like Donald Trump, who I think is a classic all-tribe, no-village avatar.

In a world without that cooling agent, you get people like Donald Trump, who I think is a classic all-tribe, no-village avatar.

I also think that as long as we're just trying to diagnose evenly across the board, I think that you have some progressives who struggle to see how half the country could like Donald Trump in the first place when their neighbors, in many cases, are voting for Donald Trump. People can say, no, well, Derek, there's this theory of the big sort.

I also think that as long as we're just trying to diagnose evenly across the board, I think that you have some progressives who struggle to see how half the country could like Donald Trump in the first place when their neighbors, in many cases, are voting for Donald Trump. People can say, no, well, Derek, there's this theory of the big sort.

I also think that as long as we're just trying to diagnose evenly across the board, I think that you have some progressives who struggle to see how half the country could like Donald Trump in the first place when their neighbors, in many cases, are voting for Donald Trump. People can say, no, well, Derek, there's this theory of the big sort.

We tend to live around people who agree with us about everything. Well, a third of Brooklyn voted for Donald Trump, right? In a room of 18 people, six of them voted for Donald Trump in Brooklyn. So I do think that the cold medicine that I do have for progressives like me or liberals like me is that

We tend to live around people who agree with us about everything. Well, a third of Brooklyn voted for Donald Trump, right? In a room of 18 people, six of them voted for Donald Trump in Brooklyn. So I do think that the cold medicine that I do have for progressives like me or liberals like me is that

We tend to live around people who agree with us about everything. Well, a third of Brooklyn voted for Donald Trump, right? In a room of 18 people, six of them voted for Donald Trump in Brooklyn. So I do think that the cold medicine that I do have for progressives like me or liberals like me is that

If we feel like we're living in a country that's alien to us, when half the country, roughly speaking, every four years votes for this guy, maybe it's because we have made ourselves strangers in our own land. And maybe we should try to reach out and understand people who seem like ideological aliens to us.

If we feel like we're living in a country that's alien to us, when half the country, roughly speaking, every four years votes for this guy, maybe it's because we have made ourselves strangers in our own land. And maybe we should try to reach out and understand people who seem like ideological aliens to us.

If we feel like we're living in a country that's alien to us, when half the country, roughly speaking, every four years votes for this guy, maybe it's because we have made ourselves strangers in our own land. And maybe we should try to reach out and understand people who seem like ideological aliens to us.

So many thoughts came to mind as you were saying that, which I agree so much with. Let me try to rank them in my head. Arlie Russell Hochschild was a sociologist, I believe, at UCLA. I don't know if you've spoken to her.

So many thoughts came to mind as you were saying that, which I agree so much with. Let me try to rank them in my head. Arlie Russell Hochschild was a sociologist, I believe, at UCLA. I don't know if you've spoken to her.

So many thoughts came to mind as you were saying that, which I agree so much with. Let me try to rank them in my head. Arlie Russell Hochschild was a sociologist, I believe, at UCLA. I don't know if you've spoken to her.