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The National Mood Has Changed

By Polly Frost

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Santa Barbara Current
Dec 16, 2024
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There’s a sense of exuberance and optimism in the air. Have you noticed it too?

Students are goading their Woke teachers by wearing MAGA hats. NFL players and sorority co-eds are doing the Trump Dance. We might — horrors! — be in for four years of mostly good feelings. It’s like an uplifting scene in one of those Ron Howard movies we all loved in the 198…

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