This smokejumper says the US has lost its empathy. That’s why he’s running for Congress

Montana's Sam Forstag says US working class is left playing a game of chance while neither party serves its interests

At around five o'clock on a winter evening in 2013, then college student Sam Forstag was driving through a snowstorm toward his third job of the day, making sandwiches at the Subway inside a Walmart.

I was always late," Forstag recalled with a laugh more than a decade later.