So that happened. I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few years thinking and writing about the worst and best of America, and somehow I’m still surprised and saddened when we lean into our worst. We can try to understand and analyze these results in all sorts of ways, but the bottom line is that more than 70 million of my fellow Americans voted for a candidate who expresses and embodies not just the worst attributes of human behavior and the worst impulses toward fascism, but also (and most relevantly to this blog) the worst of our shared histories and national identity.
The only
other thing I want to say here is this: over the last few days, I’ve started to
work hard to lean in myself, into the people and things I love, into the best
in my life, from the biggest (my younger son as he moves through his senior
year, my older son as he continues to rock his freshman year in college, my
parents, my wife) to the smallest (a Reese’s ice cream cake for no reason other
than all the reasons). And one of the things I love most is the best of the
work I get to do—in the classroom, on my podcast, in this blog, everywhere I
get to do this AmericanStudying thing. La lucha continua, and as ever I’m very
proud to be in it with y’all.
Blog
anniversary series starts Monday,
Ben
PS. What
do you think?
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