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I Just Got Back From Europe. They All Know That America's a Mess and That He's Nuts.
My family and I had barely been in our Lisbon Uber for ninety seconds when our gregarious driver Nuno, recognizing our accents asked, “So… are you pro-Trump or anti-Trump?”
For a split-second I froze, as two alternate scenarios played out in my head: Were we about to be warmly embraced by a kindred spirit from an ocean away, or find ourselves in the back of a Portuguese fascist sympathizer’s car preparing for an awkward conversation and early exit?
Suddenly, I heard my voice clumsily blurt out: “We are… extremely not pro-Trump.”
Now, unlike my driver, English is my first language, but I…
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