{"id":4020,"date":"2018-06-05T23:23:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T23:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/05\/how-trump-is-transforming-rural-america\/"},"modified":"2018-06-05T23:23:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T23:23:33","slug":"how-trump-is-transforming-rural-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/05\/how-trump-is-transforming-rural-america\/","title":{"rendered":"How Trump Is Transforming Rural America"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In Grand Junction, it was often dispiriting to see such enthusiasm for a figure who could become the ultimate political boom-and-bust. There was idealism, too, and so many pro-Trump opinions were the fruit of powerful and legitimate life experiences. \u201cWe just assume that if someone voted for Trump that they\u2019re racist and uneducated,\u201d Jeriel Brammeier, the twenty-six-year-old chair of the local Democratic Party, told me. \u201cWe can\u2019t think about it like that.\u201d People have reasons for the things that they believe, and the intensity of their experiences can\u2019t be taken for granted; it\u2019s not simply a matter of having Fox News on in the background. But perhaps this is a way to distinguish between the President and his supporters. Almost everybody I met in Grand Junction seemed more complex, more interesting, and more decent than the man who inspires them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/07\/24\/how-trump-is-transforming-rural-america\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/07\/24\/how-trump-is-transforming-rural-america<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Grand Junction, it was often dispiriting to see such enthusiasm for a figure who could become the ultimate political boom-and-bust. There was idealism, too, and so many pro-Trump opinions were the fruit of powerful and legitimate life experiences. \u201cWe just assume that if someone voted for Trump that they\u2019re racist and uneducated,\u201d Jeriel Brammeier, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-12Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}