Speak for America

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The 2016 winner of the Nobel Prize for literature has posed the question for Republicans, whose party has nominated Donald J. Trump for president:

How does it feel, how does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home A complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

Needless to say, it does not feel good. We are on our own. Those of us who voted in previous general elections—with neither hesitation before nor regret after—for Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and Bob Dole and George W. Bush and John McCain and Mitt Romney have no clear direction home.

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