This Is Really Happening
How did the country end up with a choice that most of its voters don’t want?
by David A. Graham
Jan 23, 2024
3 minutes
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Well, here it is.
With Donald Trump’s victory in tonight’s New Hampshire primary, the die is cast. Or rather, the public can no longer ignore that the die is cast. Really, it was cast months, even years, ago and it has landed on what most Americans consider a bad roll: a rematch of the 2020 election between Trump and President Joe Biden.
Dread of this outcome is perhaps the most unifying issue in an otherwise polarized political moment. For years, Americans have
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