On This Peculiar Pre-Election Moment of Anxiety and Hope

The Wild Word magazine
7 min readOct 30, 2020

By Maria Behan — SPOTLIGHT

Donald Trump began his presidency by lying about the size of his inauguration crowd. He’s finishing it (I hope) by lying about the pandemic that has left America with the highest number of Covid-19 infections and deaths in the world.

Trump’s improbable ascent to power in 2016 may have been difficult to predict, but…

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