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I tweeted this out earlier, but for blog readers here it is in this form.
Some morning-after
thoughts: what hits me and other so hard isn’t just the immense damage
Trump will surely do, to climate above all. There’s also a vast
disillusionment that as of now I think of as the end of the romantic
vision of America (which I still love).
What I mean is the
notion of US history as a sort of novel in which there may be great
tragedy, but there’s always a happy ending. That is, we tell a story in
which at times of crisis we always find the leader — Lincoln, FDR — and
the moral courage we need.
It’s a particular kind
of American exceptionalism; other countries don’t tell that kind of
story about themselves. But I, like others, believed it.
Now it doesn’t look
very good, does it? But giving up is not an option. The world needs a
decent, democratic America, or we’re all lost. And there’s still a lot
of decency in the nation — it’s just not as dominant as I imagined. Time
to rethink, for sure. But not to surrender.
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