Griff Merriweather, like his daughter, had always been a Democrat. He’d voted for Obama, twice. But then he’d told a dirty joke at work, got called out by a young woman of color, canceled, bought out of his partnership, career over, and suddenly he was watching Fox News day and night. Emily recognized that her dad was being pushed away from the left more than he was being pulled in by the right—it wasn’t the port that was appealing, it was the storm that terrified Griff Merriweather, not to mention Whit Longworth. Men like her dad and her husband were becoming terrified animals, backed into
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