The small SUV bounced along one particular of Washington’s many pothole-scarred streets as dusk set in when its driver asked a very simple but challenging concern.
“What occurred to your country?” the Lyft driver, who recognized himself as Patrick, asked this columnist as we locked eyes in his rearview mirror.
Born and raised in Kenya, Patrick stated on the evening of Sept. 10 that he emigrated to the United States a few decades in the past. Again then, and until eventually a few years ago, he claimed, he was ready to understand American politics and society — even as it underwent unavoidable modifications.
An affable fellow with a hearty chuckle and slim black eyeglasses, Patrick listened as the Donald Trump a long time — which I included up near as CQ Roll Call’s White Dwelling correspondent — have been summarized from the backseat. He […]