The political math is clarifying: 489 of the wealthiest counties in the country voted for Clinton; the remaining 2,623 counties, largely made up of small towns, suburbs, and rural areas, voted for Trump. Slightly fewer than 55% of all voting-age adults bestirred themselves to go to the polls. That statistic is at least as painful to process as the Comey letter, the Russian hack of the D.N.C., the strategic failures of the Clinton campaign, and the over-all darkness of the Trump campaign. It’s a statistic about passivity, which is just what a democracy in the era of Trump can no longer afford.
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