Is Anyone Going to Fight for Democracy?
As we face an incoming administration led by an autocratic felon with an insatiable appetite for fascism, our minority party still wants to play by the rules. So who will go to the mat for us?
Kaitlin Byrd
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Kaitlin Byrd is a writer, researcher, and proud Prep for Prep alum, working in her hometown of Brooklyn. She writes and curses about politics on Twitter.
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