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A Stalled American Dream - Chris Arnade Walks the World

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I set off last Wednesday, to spend three weeks driving around the US talking to people about the American Dream, with high expectations drizzled in nostalgia, since it was the copy of a project I’d done exactly nine years before. After close to four years crisscrossing the world, by jet and foot, I was looking forward to a road trip around the US, which I hoped would be a refreshing change and would give me a sense of where the mood of my country currently was, especially since there is an election in three months, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned from my prior political reporting, it’s that you can’t trust the media (Twitter) to tell you much of anything, other than the fantasies of a sequestered political class, and if you want to know how voters see things, you need to go out and talk to as many people as possible in as many places as possible, especially those places successful people with good jobs have been fleeing for the last fifty years. That style of reporting, something

A Stalled American Dream A depressing and unhealthy few days on the road Chris Arnade Aug 09, 2024 461 137 77 Share (I spent the last week driving around America. This is the first essay from that trip.) I set off last Wednesday, to spend three weeks driving around the US talking to people about the American Dream, with high expectations drizzled in nostalgia, since it was the copy of a project I’d done exactly nine years before . After close to four years crisscrossing the world, by jet and foot, I was looking forward to a road trip around the US, which I hoped would be a refreshing change an

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