Looking Through the Past

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This Election Should Break the Fever, But It Won’t

This Election Should Break the Fever, But It Won’t

Trumpism will haunt us for a while longer

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George Dillard
Nov 12, 2022
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This Election Should Break the Fever, But It Won’t
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Donald Trump, photo by Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Like toddlers at mealtime, Americans love to reject what they asked for the last time around. We have a long history of electing a president and then, two years later, voting overwhelmingly against his party in the midterms. Vote for a party’s vision, reject that vision, rinse and repeat.

Every time the …

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