How does one do it? Give us some advice on how to be a little bit less

horrible.

Remember what I said.

I'm obsolete.

I am a living fossil.

The...

But when we started the Baffler Magazine, our idea of what literature was was very Midwestern.

Oh, that great monstrosity? The most expensive presidential library?

I work three part-time jobs, so...

Yeah.

At the end of the day, look, you know, you can't when you hurt people like that, they're going to come back at you.

And I think the larger point that we need to make here is the Democrats are, yeah, they're going to do well this fall.

Just in a couple of weeks here, they're going to do well.

No doubt about it.

They're almost certainly going to take the House of Representatives.

Explain.

I wonder if you could talk about how you see class functioning here.

Molly, you know...

How many books have I written now? Eight.

Every single one of them is about social class and the way that we understand it and the way that we distort it and the way it is in turn distorted for us by people like Donald Trump or the Republicans.

The way it's blown off and brushed off by the people who used to be the great defenders of working class people, the Democrats.

Barack Obama did talk about it.

There's his momentous speech in Osawatomie, Kansas.

patients for non-payment of bills and then didn't pay his bakery bill.