“A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.”

~John Steinbeck, awarded the Nobel Prize in literature this day in 1962

From The Economist:

[…] America has problems, but this picture is a caricature of a country that, on most measures, is more prosperous, more peaceful and less racist than ever before. The real threat is from the man who has done most to stoke national rage, and who will, in Cleveland, accept the Republican Party’s nomination to run for president. Win or lose in November, Donald Trump has the power to reshape America so that it becomes more like the dysfunctional and declining place he claims it to be. […]

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