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Americans Are Heading for the Exits

Go ahead and roll your eyes at those who want to emigrate amid Trump’s second term, but it’s a worrying trend.

But almost exactly one year to the day after it was published, it garnered the attention of HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher, in whichthe show’s titular host featured it in a segment that ridiculed the notion of people fretting about their safety in this country, imploring us instead to stay here and make it a better place. And a representative of Polaron, an Australian company that helps people obtain European citizenship by descent, told me that her firm has also “seen a steep increase in Americans wishing to leave their country, with many more keen to use their EU passport as a plan B.” But many of those problems will take a lot more than an election to solve because they stem from deep structural flaws in our system of government rooted in an antiquated constitution and a political culture contaminated by selfishness, ignorance, cruelty, violence, and authoritarian white, Christian supremacy.

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