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   >> receiving death threats that she chalked up to having a Biden sign in the   
   >> front yard. Should Trump win, the Fieros expect to quit their home in   
   >> northeast Tennessee—and maybe America, too.   
   >>   
   >> “We’ve looked at different countries,” she said. “I really think it’s going   
   >> to be that bad if he wins.”   
   >>   
   >> Varon is skeptical of pledges to leave the U.S., a complex process that can   
   >> take years. More likely, he argued, is that people would turn inward. In   
   >> weaker moments, he confessed, he has imagined riding out a second Trump   
   >> administration at his Hudson Valley home, strumming his guitar and   
   gardening.   
   >> “Most people,” Varon predicted, “are going to stay here and figure out some   
   >> way to cope with the next four years. The danger is resignation.”   
   >>   
   >> Not long ago, the mood seemed brighter. Some Democrats flirted with optimism   
   >> after Biden’s July exit from the race and then a buoyant convention that   
   >> propelled Harris. Now, many are contemplating defeat, in some instances by   
   >> studying the recent experience of abortion-rights and pro-LGBTQ+ groups in   
   >> conservative states and mining lessons.   
   >>   
   >> The hope, according to Gabe Tobias, a political strategist who has advised   
   >> U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and other members of “the   
   >> Squad,” would be to minimize the damage Trump could do in a second term.   
   >>   
   >> For all the unease, pre-election unrest is far lower than in 2020, according   
   >> to Erin Miller, of ACLED, a nonprofit organization that monitors conflict   
   >> worldwide. It was just as likely, she speculated, that a second Trump   
   victory   
   >> would pass with a whimper as opposed to an uprising. “It’s not a shock” this   
   >> time, she observed.   
   >>   
   >> That is little comfort to Fiero, who recalls election night eight years ago   
   >> when she had a bottle of prosecco ready to toast what would be Hillary   
   >> Clinton’s historic victory. Then the results trickled in. “Around 8 o’clock,   
   >> excuse my French, I said to my husband: this [guy’s] going to win!”   
   >>   
   >> Soon the former marketing specialist found herself signing up for the Texas   
   >> branch of the Women’s March and then being thrust into a leadership role   
   when   
   >> other volunteers became overwhelmed. “For me, the Women’s March kind of   
   >> pulled me out of a terrible funk,” she recalled.   
   >>   
   >> This election season, Fiero foresees darkness. “It scares me to my core,”   
   she   
   >> said. “My gut tells me she’ll win. But it told me Hillary would, too.”   
   >   
   >Trump said at a rally in September of Kamala supporters: "They're scum,   
   >and they want to take down our country. They are absolutely garbage."   
      
   Nonresponse noted. Get back to us when you have a real argument to make.   
      
   --   
   "The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,"   
           -- DoJ-certified imbecile Joe Biden   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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