I guess what I'm looking for here is empathy. So you [Nicholas Kristof] have traveled all around the world, famously to the worse places of the world. Darfur. Mogadishu, Ouagadougou. Probably those places much more than Modesto or Lewiston.I never read a column by you that suggest the people in those places, who support dictators oftentimes, are racists or bad people. You would never write that about a poor person in the third world but you are implying that about your fellow Americans.

I don't think that [thew are bigots] of [Donald Trump] supporters. Those supporters are from my hometown - I understand that suffering. I have written about it repeatedly from my hometown.

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?

Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.

Honestly, a lot of liberals are foot soldiers in the war on Christmas.

There's no suggestion of why people might have voted for [Donald] Trump.

I definitely don't want to make Nicholas Kristof defend your employer, no one should have to do that but a sincere question.