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Inside Trump Country Moms on Lsd the Gop's Real Victory JAN/FEB 2017 INSIDE TRUMP COUNTRY MOMS ON LSD THE GOP’S REAL VICTORY Anyone who wants to make America great has to grow the economy. Here’s how. “ Never one to aim low, David Smick is calling for America to reinvent herself through a new innovative era of ‘mass fl ourishing.’ And even more impressive, he’s written a game plan on how to do it. The Great Equalizer is chock full of can- ny insights and bold ideas; it defi nitely deserves a close read.” —PAUL RYAN, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives “ The next U.S. President should thank David Smick for The Great Equalizer.” —BILL BRADLEY, former U.S. Senator “ Whoever advises the next president on economics will want to read this book.” —LAWRENCE SUMMERS , former secretary of the U.S. Treasury Pataja © Tec www.publicaffairsbooks.com • Available now in hardcover and e-book wherever books are sold GreatEqualizer_ad4 Final.indd 1 11/11/16 1:03 PM contents JAN/FEB 2017 UP FRONT 6 Trump’s Vanishing Base 20 Blue-collar whites put him over the top. It won’t happen again. BY BOB MOSER 8 The Democrats’ Biggest Disaster The GOP dominates state legislatures. BY NICOLE NAREA AND ALEX SHEPHARD 10 The Disease Detectives Why is the government spying on mosquitoes? BY CYNTHIA GRABER 11 Q&A: Bad Education For-profit colleges don’t work. So how can we stop them? BY RACHEL M. COHEN 13 #IHeartMyDictator Authoritarian regimes are winning the social media wars. BY SEAN WILLIAMS COLUMNS 16 Great White Hopes Why did the rural working class elect Trump? BY ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD 18 He’s Making a List Trump is more paranoid and dangerous than Nixon. BY RICK PERLSTEIN REVIEW 50 A Trip of One’s Own LSD is back. Can women finally enjoy drugs? BY CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS 56 Tied in Knots Beyond Hope The modern marriage is an elaborate How much of Obama’s legacy will survive the age of feat of performance. BY VIVIAN GORNICK 58 Ordinary Monsters Trump? Five historians and political observers weigh in. The twisted fairy tales of Ottessa BY ERIC BATES Moshfegh. BY JOSEPHINE LIVINGSTONE 61 Dead Center The failure of “grown up” liberalism. BY TIMOTHY SHENK 34 42 64 The Rise of the Telenovela The Making of an The Great How soap operas are remaking TV in American Terrorist Abandonment their own image. BY SARAH MARSHALL Robert Dear shot up a Planned How decades of economic hardship 68 Literary Agents Parenthood clinic and killed three and neglect have turned Nebraska’s Rethinking the legacy of writers who people. Did the right-wing media help once-proud farming towns into Donald worked with the CIA. BY PATRICK IBER turn a disturbed loner into a mass Trump country. TEXT BY TED GENOWAYS 72 Backstory murderer? BY AMANDA ROBB PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANNY WILCOX FRAZIER PHOTOGRAPH BY FURKAN TEMIR COVER PHOTOILLUSTRATION BY JUSTIN METZ COVER: OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PHOTO/CHUCK KENNEDY. ABOVE: BEN BAKER/REDUX. JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 | 1 contributors Danny Wilcox Frazier is an award-winning photographer whose Editor in Chief Win McCormack work has appeared in Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic. He spent the last two years traversing the Nebraska plains, documenting Editor people struggling to survive the economic shift that has devastated rural Eric Bates communities throughout America. 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He is the author of Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Siddhartha Deb, Michael Eric Dyson, Sukjong Hong Nicole Narea Cold War in Latin America, which offers new interpretations of front groups Paul Ford, Ted Genoways, William Giraldi, Dana Goldstein, like the Congress for Cultural Freedom. LITERARY AGENTS, P. 68 Kathryn Joyce, Suki Kim, Interns Maria Konnikova, Corby Kummer, Demetria Lee Sarah Marshall hosts the podcast The Feelings Club. She is at work Jen Percy, Jamil Smith, Sagari Shetty on a forthcoming book about indigent defense in the South. Her writing Graeme Wood, Robert Wright Social Media Intern has appeared in the new republic, Lapham’s Quarterly, and Elle. Eric Armstrong THE RISE OF THE TELENOVELA, P. 64 Rick Perlstein is the author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President VP of Marketing and Associate Publisher and the Fracturing of America and The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and Communications Art Stupar the Rise of Reagan. 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