I Am What's Wrong With America*

This post originally appeared on Medium. On Friday, I went on TV and called for empathy for supporters of Donald Trump. Forget the candidate for a second, I said. Let us ask what kind of pain is throbbing in those precincts most drawn to his theme of destructive renewal. And let us ask, those of us who have felt history to be moving in our direction, whether we listened to ― not redressed, but listened to  ― the grievances of our “brothers and sisters” before they graduated into anger:...