"My natural inclination, from the start, was to be really, really supportive of Donald Trump's message," says JD Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy.

A little over a year since a wave of populist support in "flyover country" helped elect President Donald J. Trump, Ian Bremmer descends from the snowflaked perches of his globalist headquarters in New York to discuss the state of Trump's base with Hillbilly Elegy author JD Vance.

Plus, a new segment we call: PUPPET REGIME.

(AIRDATE: November 11, 2017)

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