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    CAN AMERICA TRULY DUMP TRUMP?

    Feb 14, 2021 4 minutes

    I watched Donald Trump leave the White House as I hunched over my laptop in an Auckland managed isolation facility. I had arrived in New Zealand a few days earlier after spending months working as a mostly cheerful foot soldier in the broad-based anti-fascist coalition that has returned the Democrats to full power in Washington for the first time in 10 years. In Michigan and then in Georgia for the Senate runoffraces, I helped organise the campaign on the ground with the annoying enthusiasm of a missionary. I rallied would-be volunteers in the suburbs of Detroit and chased down voters in labyrinthine apartment complexes in Atlanta.

    After months of fast-food

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