what a difference 4 years makes

2017

This was writ­ten by a teenag­er at Roo­sevelt High in Seat­tle whose teacher in­vit­ed Trump sup­port­er For­est Macha­la, then 22, to speak to her class:

“I was dev­as­tat­ed from the elec­tion be­cause I sup­port­ed Clin­ton, and I wasn’t sure if I could han­dle talk­ing with a Trump sup­port­er. But my cu­rios­i­ty out­weighed my fears and I de­cid­ed to stay – un­til I heard [For­est] Macha­la say that his faith in Trump didn’t fal­ter af­ter the re­lease of the Ac­cess Hol­ly­wood tape, which shows Trump mak­ing misog­y­nist com­ments about women …”
—Olivia Capes­tany

2020

“… a sin­gle gun­shot can be heard as coun­ter­pro­test­ers ad­vance on mem­bers of a pro-Trump group on Sat­ur­day, in­clud­ing one per­son on a side­walk who is wav­ing a large Trump flag. Af­ter the gun­shot, one of the coun­ter­pro­test­ers can be seen falling to the ground as oth­ers call for help. In an­oth­er video, a man with a gun can be seen run­ning from the scene and putting on a red hat.”
—Christi­na Morales, NYT

“The shoot­er, iden­ti­fied as 26-year-old Trump sup­port­er For­est Michael Macha­la of Seat­tle, was charged with first-de­gree as­sault, the state’s equiv­a­lent of an at­tempt­ed-mur­der charge. The vic­tim, a Black man who has not been iden­ti­fied, was trans­port­ed by street medics to a lo­cal hos­pi­tal with a stom­ach wound.”
—David Nei­w­ert, Dai­ly Kos

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2020 Emi­ly Duchaine.

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