after all let's be clear, a malicious agent against democracy. i don't think there's any other way to put it. and yet donald trump was much a symptom of underlying problems is the ever was a source. part of this entire project was about my own experience and coming back to this country, after a decade abroad, and realizing, even before donald trump was in office, that people were breaking faith with the basic institutions that define us as a democratic culture. they were not believing that the courts were going to deliver justice to people, they did not believe there was a system that was going to deliver racial justice and fairness. and fundamentally, they have lost faith in the idea that a child born in the united states was going to be able to out-earn their parents. that's not an abstract fact, in 1940, a child born in this country ran a 90% chance of our earning your parents, today that number is less than half as much. so i said i have to go to places that i know, places where i've lived in my life. three very different places.