Farah Stockman

The most memorable comment I found in this book was how America has entered the Walmart economy: where its employees are paid so little that shopping at Walmart is their only feasible alternative.

I don't think this adds much to the "explain Trump to liberals" genre. Stockman herself seems to have a very limited, and privileged, position. Everything she finds novel I think is well known to anyone who's followed the news even slightly. There is nothing revelatory about the characters she follows. Ignorant and willfully misinformed, they are about as repulsive and ugly as the least-informed liberal might have expected from watching ten minutes of Fox propaganda.