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Lots of reaction to this story, thank you all for reading it! A little more on that last quote that some of you have asked about, where Crystal Minton said President Trump was “not hurting the people he needs to be hurting” nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/… 1/
Ms. Minton made clear in the context of our conversations that she was expressing frustration at the situation that she and her colleagues are facing in the shutdown, that ordinary people are caught in a political fight they didn’t ask for 2/
It seemed clear when I talked to her that she didn’t mean she wanted to literally “hurt” anyone. And she reiterated in a conversation with me today that she doesn’t. She’s just angry at politicians in power. And that’s how she expressed it 3/
She never said she thought immigrants (or any other group) should be punished. She’s seen comments suggesting she holds animosity toward others. She’s appalled by the thought. “I just don’t want people like me to be used as leverage over there in Washington,” she told me today 4/
This sense of frustration toward people in power and the political system was broadly shared among people I interviewed for this story. They felt they were being hurt and that no one in power seemed to care 5/
In my experience, that’s a sentiment shared among voters generally since the presidential campaign began in 2015 /end
