Thursday, May 5, 2016

Richard Russo

On who the characters of Everybody's Fool would vote for in this election

I think it's pretty clear that so many of the people that I know and love and have been writing about for a long time, alas, have lined up ... with Mr. Trump. ... I'm heartbroken. ... I think America is changing. It's changing before their eyes and I think that a lot of the angry white men who support Donald Trump have a belief that America has passed them by. And that people who don't look like them are getting ahead in the new America. And I think they all understand in some ways that Donald Trump is speaking in a less coded way than some others in the Republican Party, but he's saying Make America white again, not Make America great again. And I think, unfortunately, working class people have bought that. And that's why my heart is broken.

Richard Russo


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'Everybody's Fool' Author Richard Russo: 'I Find Myself Now ... Having Lived The American Dream' : NPR

http://www.npr.org/2016/05/05/476743466/novelist-richard-russo-i-find-myself-now-having-lived-the-american-dream


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Make America White Again