Opinion: Hmmm, we got issues
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.
The fact that we aren’t in shape anymore to shape the world has made us mad, and Donald Trump played to that anger to get elected president in 2016 and every day since.
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