Is it me, or does there seem to be a growing spate of political anguish here?

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83. What two Washington Post writers traveling the country found in 2016:

"For every disgruntled person out there who felt undone by the system and threatened by the way the country was changing, caught in the bind of stagnant wages or longing for an America of the past, we found someone who who had endured decades of discrimination and hardship and yet felt optimistic about the future and had no desire to go back. In this season of discontent, there were still as many expressions of hope as of fear. On a larger level, there were as many communities enjoying a sense of revival as there were fighting against deterioration and despair."