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   > 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.”   
   >   
   > --   
   > "The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,"   
   >          -- DoJ-certified imbecile Joe Biden   
   >   
   >   
      
   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."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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