[central_va]

Meanwhile, suicide is on the rise in the American heartland, and deaths of despair driven by opiate addiction are diminishing the core of the nation. That’s a story Horwitz doesn’t deign to mention.

Missing a key component here and that is the economic stagnation due to factory closings and offshoring.

[Chickensoup]

IIRC the larger article at the link mentions this. I was focused on the elitest atitude that was being addresses also in the article.