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The election of Donald Trump is, to me, this very clownish personality with no political experience, who had literally been using fascist slogans in his campaign. It had seemed so impossible.

Ben H. Winters

We think, “Well, what are you gonna do?” In a way, that little instinct, that “What are you gonna do?” is the most dangerous thing in the world.
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Dangerous Instinct Little Think Way
Even after he was elected, and even now, it still feels impossible. It felt like we had fallen into this wormhole of history.
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Even Fallen Feel History Impossible Now
I think it’s hard sometimes for people to grapple with the real-life consequences of political change.
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Real Sports Thinking
That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can’t just take for granted that things will steadily get better and better and better until they’re great. It is fits and starts. It is backward and forward.
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Community Country Get Better
Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it’s all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.
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Book Falling Love Writing
I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone’s mind and their imagination can come to rest for a little while.
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Imagination Mind Thinking
One thing we’ve learned about Donald Trump – this candidate first, president-elect, and now president – is that he has this sort of reptilian instinct for rooting out supposed enemies and finding people he can whip up distrust into rage.
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Enemy People President
Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn.
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Fiction Prophesy Special
I think that if there is a great gift that this [Donald Trump] election gave us, is this sort of sense of vigilance, the sense that we have to remain on guard. We have to support our free press.
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Gift Great Press Sense Support Think
There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.
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Detectives Littles Novelty
We pretend that everything that has happened happened long ago, and then we act as if we all now just treat each other equally, everything will be fine.
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Each Other Everything Pretend Things Treat
A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.
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Blood Blue Depression
The election of Donald Trump is, to me, this very clownish personality with no political experience, who had literally been using fascist slogans in his campaign. It had seemed so impossible.
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Campaign Personality Political
Our political divides have become our personal divides.
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Become Divide Personal Political
One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how they play out on real people’s lives, with real individuals.
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Issues Moral Play Real
I think that, we as a culture, feel like politics is one sector of our lives that can feel apart from our personal lives and the cultural things we’re interested in and the sports we watch. It feels like this separate, different thing.
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Culture Interested Lives Personal Politics Sports

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