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How to Survive the Next 280 Days (and Help America Survive Beyond Them)

Robert B. Reich, Tribune Content Agency on

The 2024 election is 280 days away. How can we survive until then? How can we help America survive beyond it?

Many of you tell me that you’re already filled with outrage. I am, too.

Trump is still not locked up, although he incited an attack on the U.S. Capitol more than three years ago, which resulted in several deaths and could have cost the lives of many more, including members of Congress.

He did it to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

If he’s able to delay his trials and he gets elected, he may never be held accountable.

He hasn’t stopped lying that the 2020 election was stolen from him, causing Americans to be more divided than at any time since the Civil War.

 

He’s on the way to winning the Republican nomination, and polls (unreliable as early polls are) show him beating Biden.

He has turned one of our two major political parties against democracy and toward neofascism.

He embodies moral squalor — bragging about sexually assaulting women, being found in a civil trial to have raped a woman, lying constantly about everything, claiming immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of America, calling for a “termination” of the Constitution, describing political opponents as “vermin.”

And on and on.

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