Instead what we’re seeing are cabinet picks that support this kind of behaviour. Since he was elected, she notes, there has been a rise in hate crimes and speech: “Elementary school kids chanting at Latino students ‘We’re going to build a wall’ Muslim American families waking up with signs on their lawn, saying ‘Get out now’ swastikas painted on a children’s playground in New York City we’re seeing all this and we’re not seeing an abject disavowal by the president-elect, which is a very big problem. She was in Australia when Donald Trump was elected, and likens the aftermath of grief and shock she felt to processing a death she would wake up every morning, turn to CNN or the New York Times to find the news from the States, “stunned anew” each time by the “fresh hell Trump waded into”. I meet Picoult on her whistlestop visit to the UK, less than two weeks after the American election.
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