Much of what we fear seems to be each other.

You fear the world I want to live in,

and I fear your visions in turn.

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Now welcome to the award winning best of left podcast

with clips today from Democracy Now on the media,

the backstory, the majority report,

The Ezra Client Show, and a TED Talk by Anand Geard Hood Haradas.

Today we spend the rest of the hour

with the famed sociologist Arleigh Russell Hokechild.

She spent much of the last five years

with son of Donald Trump's biggest supporters

researching her new book, Strangers in their own land,

Anger and Morning on the American Right.

It has just been nominated for an American book award.

Congratulations, Arleigh.

So talk about why you wrote this book.

You're a professor at University of California,

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