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Dennis Donovan

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Sat Oct 5, 2024, 04:21 PM Oct 5

The Dworkin Report: A Harris Win Ends the Trump Nightmare [View all]

The Dworkin Report - A Harris Win Ends the Trump Nightmare

We can finally escape his darkness

Dr. Stephanie Lovely and Scott Dworkin
Oct 05, 2024

This a guest post from one of my favorite writers, Dr. Stephanie Lovely. I hope you enjoy. Onward! Scott

In the earliest hours of the morning, Wednesday November 9, 2016, I listened to the radio as I drove back from an election party held for Democratic Party volunteers. I shook when results came in, as the deep, belligerent voices of Trump supporters chanted “Call it! Call it! Call it!”

Throughout the night, I cried. I curled up in my bed, wondering who was outside the walls of my apartment.

How many of my neighbors voted for a man who boasted about assaulting women, and encouraged violence and hate against vulnerable populations?

How many juiced up frat boys were roaming around campus celebrating their ideological win?

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I'm not sure it's especially helpful to re-live that day in 2016. It was a dark day...
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