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The last segment on rising mortality rates for middle-aged white people was at best insensitive and at worst simply cruel. Neither Jimmy, Leah, nor Negin expressed any sympathy for this public health catastrophe, and their responses -- "just suck it up; be resilient; why should the government help them" etc -- sounded like the Republicans they affect to dislike. Have any of them been to a small town in the Rest Belt where there are no jobs and the despair and hopelessness is obvious everywhere?