Robert Putnam:
That is a primary cause of the Trump phenomenon. That’s true. You can see it in the data, but you don’t have to trust me.
Steve Bannon has said publicly, back in the day, when they were trying to figure out how they could get Trump elected, they read this book by this crazy academic called “Bowling Alone,” and that guided their — I’m not proud of this, but that guided their strategy, because they thought, just as I had been writing, that, when people are socially isolated, as we are increasingly, they become vulnerable to populist appeals.
So that’s the first point. We are increasingly socially isolated. And that makes our country vulnerable to, I was going to say fascism.That isn’t quite true, but it’s close to being true.
The poor kids who live here now are living in a completely different universe for the rest of the kids in town.
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