Jonathan Metzl is the author of the new book is Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland.

Metzl explains how Trump's voters in Red State America are literally dying of whiteness and their devotion to the Republican Party and its harmful policies and how racism and a need to punish nonwhites and other "outsiders" motivates "working class" white conservatives in their political decision-making.