angst

Asked about potential cuts to the social safety net, Obernolte said there “has been a lot of angst and consternation about programs that everyone relies on like Social Security, like Medicare, like Medicaid.”

In my teenage angst, there was nothing about it that empowered me.

Like so many other social media cris de coeur, Chmura figured his would get a thumbs up from a few sympathetic friends and then get lost in the vast sea of online angst.

“I think there is a real angst and concern among all Americans about the cost of higher education,” said Eloy Ortiz Oakley, president of College Futures Foundation, which commissioned the CMI.

But the scripts tapped into the first Trump administration media fantasy of the dejected working-class white guy angst without pandering to either side of the partisan divide.