The morning after the Biden-Trump debate, I had a good feeling. Perhaps it was the setting: I was in the woods, near a lake, away from the screens. I didn’t watch the debate live, but heard about it from friends. When I was asked by a stranger that day what I felt, I said that “this is a chance that has been given to us to think things over, a chance…
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