Commune with Jeff Krasno
130. Can Americans Like Each Other Again? with Ash Ambirge
October 16, 2020 · 1 hr 13 min
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A rural Pennsylvania writer explains what coastal Americans keep getting wrong about Trump voters.
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In this episode
- The human needs driving rural voters that go unspoken in political coverage
- Why the rural-coastal divide is a language barrier as much as a values gap
- What mutual understanding actually looks like in practice across that divide
- A starting point for conversations that do not end in resentment
About this episode
A native of New Milford, Pennsylvania, author Ash Ambirge often serves as a translator, of sorts, between the languages of “rural America” and “coastal elite America.” In this conversation, Jeff and Ash discuss the hidden human needs behind voters’ embrace of Trump, and how mutual understanding can offer a path to a more productive conversation. You can read Ash’s essays that inspired this podcast at themiddlefingerproject.org. We've gone ad free! Support the Commune podcast here: https://www.onecommune.com/support
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