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Mona Chalabi

I’ve been heartbroken by America for a long time. Democrats must offer more than just hope

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‘The Democratic party spent a billion dollars on what amounted to platitudes and vibes.’ Illustration: Mona Chalabi/The Guardian

I woke up on Wednesday morning to an email from someone I barely know, a white woman I met at a party this summer. The email was empty and the subject line simply read: “What a heartbreak”. She was writing to me, someone she spoke to just once for five minutes, about Donald Trump winning the US presidency.

This liberal (let’s call her Suzie) and millions of other voters are waking up with a fear that they haven’t felt this intensely in four years. And her new fear made her think of me, a random Arab she met one time. Maybe Suzie assumed that I share her fresh dread.

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