The Gilded Rage is Alexander Zaitchik’s journalistic tour of Donald Trump’s America. A man of the Left, Zaitchik wanted to understand what drove people to back the eventual GOP nominee. He hit the road looking for answers. The sketch he presents is far different from the caricature that many pundits and politicians have drawn of these voters. Zaitchik corresponded with the Washington Examiner Saturday about his time on the road, the Amazon rainforest and Hillary Clinton’s instantly infamous “basket of deplorables.”

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Why did you decide to write a story not about Donald Trump but his supporters?