What it will take to survive a 2nd Trump presidency

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Opinion: What it will take to survive a 2nd Trump presidency

Keith A. Owens
Contributing columnist


(Detroit Free Press) In the time that has passed since the painful results of Election Day, like others, I have been using social media to connect with friends and other like-minded individuals, and also just to see what was out there. One recurring theme I’ve seen is “we will survive this.”

This, however, was not just a bump in the road, nor simply a misguided wrong turn that maybe we can fix in four years.

This was America showing us her true face, for those who may not have been paying attention, or who simply did not want to believe all of what we were seeing in the mirror. I include myself in that second group. This was a stress fracture inflicted on a nation where far too many people still see “us” and “them” instead of “us,” and my growing concern is this may be a fracture that cannot be repaired.

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It is America that has failed, and we will all pay the price. That includes Trump’s supporters, as they are about to find out. It also includes much of the rest of the world, as the devastating projected impact of Trump’s stated policies — such as mass deportation and excessive tariffs, not to mention letting Russia’s Vladimir Putin do whatever he wants with Ukraine — will send shock waves far beyond our domestic situation. ...............(more)

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