some of them showed it s too easy to point to one or two reasons why someone would vote for donald trump. it had to be your economic struggles or cultural prejudice and those were the only two possible explanations and they couldn t overlap. and a book like we re still here shows how those things can come together and also how rather than pushing you toward one candidate or another, you can be left thinking there s no room in the political system for you at all. so speaking of, you write about the following about a genera that you refer to as the heartland books. the debates over the trump voter have produced a rush of such books examining debunking or channelling the white working class. they it include histories, memoirs, academic surveys and near fetishistic dispatches,