Tea Party in Louisiana
3 stars
Having empathy for those on the other side, finding common ground around environmental destruction by corporate extraction and captured regulators, and listening deeply to the combinations of woes that somehow lead these fellow humans to the Tea Party and beyond. Hochschild lays out the seeming paradoxes and a how-it-feels story that resonates, but ultimately "Caste" makes a matching diagnosis much more directly... but this has more empathy.
