I wrote to my member of Congress, U.S. Representative for the 4th District of Illinois Jesús G. “Chuy” García, regarding what I see as a possibly major strategic mistake on yesterday’s vote declaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives to be vacant.
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But why protest when they could proselytize? For the reasons acknowledged by Krugman, Brooks, and Page, Trump’s attracting marginalized Americans. Some are racist thugs, but others are victims of circumstance and the very Americans for whom, though apparently not to whom, Bernie Sanders, for one, says he speaks. Why do Trump’s opponents antagonize these people when they could be trying to win them over?
It’s not a typo. Amercia is a village in the Cayman Islands.