A Summer Without Trump (kinda)
A Summer Without Trump (kinda) by David Perry Well….he’s still here. When my husband and I left the United States in late June for a summer working abroad, I made myself a promise: NO TRUMP. Eschewing all social media and reading only non-American news, I had hoped to gain not only a greater insight into my own country, but also to hear how Europeans felt about the United States and its new president. It worked – for a while. It worked – until Charlottesville. As a native Virginian, for me the weekend of August 11, 2017 was a Trump too far. For four days, I fell into the rancid rabbit hole of news from that hideous event: Nazis, KKK, an innocent young woman mowed down by a car, the President of the United States equating proactive racism with reactive protest. I wrote an editorial. It was published several places. Ditto for hundreds, if not thousands – millions of others – around the globe, crying out in Facebooked outrage and Twittered angst over th...