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  • 6 - Perceptions of the Most Sacred Duty

  • Yanna Krupnikov, John Barry Ryan
  • Book:
    The Other Divide
    Published online:
    19 January 2022
    Print publication:
    20 January 2022, pp 135-166

  • Summary

    The night of the 2016 presidential election, eight-year-old Miriam was, according to her father, “inconsolable.” Miriam, as her father Eli Shearn told The Washington Post some four years later, had become very engaged in the 2016 presidential campaign – something that Shearn had encouraged (Rubin 2020). Miriam’s parents were strong supporters of then-Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, setting up Miriam with red and blue crayons to watch the votes come in on election night. When Clinton lost the election to Republican Donald Trump, Miriam went to bed crying. Shearn told The Post he remembered thinking: “Why did I get her so invested in this?”