I Moved To Europe To Escape U.S. Politics. Four Years Later, I've Come To A Terrifying Realization.
May 26, 2025
It was June of 2020 when I realized I no longer wanted to live in the United States.
Riding out the pandemic in a guest bedroom at my parents’ house, I’d spent the summer watching in horror as half the country protested the violent murder of George Floyd and the other half mystifyingly seemed to celebrate it. Donald Trump was up for reelection, a race it seemed he might win despite…