Giridharadas: ‘Vulgar,’ ‘Thug-in-Chief’ Trump Made People Realize You Only Get the Country You Fight For

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GIRIDHARADAS: "The thing that makes me hopeful is that I think this year a lot of Americans found citizenship again, that this man, this vulgar man made people realize that you only get the country you fight for. And we saw it with the Women’s March the day after he was sworn in. That set the tone for the year. But citizenship is Jeff Flake giving a courageous speech. Citizenship is Richard Shelby being patriotic in his own way. Citizenship is all the people who are running for office including an extraordinary number of women running for office this year and next year. Citizenship is people knocking on doors. There’s an extraordinary waive of people realizing that you have to fight for America that is better than this."