Lea in Trumpland: Alicia

Strangers

Lea Thau

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 April 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Lea has been traveling around interviewing Trump supporters and she’s tried to do it differently. She’s gotten drunk with them and high with them, she’s road-tripped with them and stayed overnight in their kids’ bedrooms, she’s cried with them, dined with them, yelled at them (and vice versa) to bring the conversation to a new … Continue reading Lea in Trumpland: Alicia →

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0:00.0	Welcome to strangers from KCW and Radiotopia.
0:07.8	I'm Leah Tao.
0:09.5	And over the past month, I've been traveling around the country to interview Trump supporters.
0:16.8	Well, I think we could always find common ground.
0:18.9	And I think if you and I didn't discuss politics, we could probably get along really great.
0:22.5	But that may also be true of devil worshippers.
0:24.8	I mean, it's not hard hanging out with people and having a good time.
0:27.5	You want to get drunk?
0:28.4	Perhaps.
0:29.3	Okay.
0:29.7	You like scotch?
0:30.9	So let's smoke weed, is what you're saying.
0:32.6	Smoke weed.
0:33.4	Yeah, I think...
0:34.2	Is weed legal in this state? I don't know if you're right out here.
0:37.8	We should put it around the corner.
0:38.8	It's fine.
0:39.9	Right here is perfect.
0:41.6	How much could you hate each other if you're stoned?
0:44.4	What has changed in 80 days in your life that you are so threatened? I hope that Trump might actually have some good ideas inside his embarrassing, crazy, narcissistic, ego, bloated, gilded, tacky, corny, lying, cheating, pussy grabbing, machismo.
1:03.1	But it's worse.
1:04.6	I have never in my life seen the look of disgust like I have when somebody found out that I voted for Trump.
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