I asked the group about Trump’s rather weird relationship with Vladimir Putin, and Gillum said, “I haven’t researched that issue.” Indeed, it seemed the Trump supporters were less obsessed with the daily run of campaign controversy. They didn’t seem to care much about Trump’s lies or exaggerations, nor did they mention immigrants or Muslims. Trump lived in the world of business, as they did. He knew all about the paperwork they had to fill out, the financial risks they took, the month-to-month vagaries of keeping a small business open. Clinton had absolutely nothing to say to them about their daily lives–and I wondered where her vaunted small-business initiative, announced early in the campaign, had gone. “The only thing she says about us is she wants to put our coal miners out of business,” said Donald Willis, the local jail administrator.