The decade that shook America
Posted by The Editor on December 21, 2019 2:30 am
Tags: Barack Obama, Culture, Donald Trump, Law (US), Lin-Manuel Miranda, US news, US politics, US supreme court
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2010 to 2020 was a contradictory decade that will confound future historians with a simple question: how did America go from Obama to Trump?
Lin-Manuel Miranda was touring his award-winning musical, In the Heights, to his parents’ homeland of Puerto Rico. Donald Trump was awarding first prize on his reality TV show, The Apprentice, to a corporate lawyer turned mobile cupcake entrepreneur.
The year was 2010 and, in the decade that followed, these two hustlers from New York with fiercely devoted followings would come to represent the two faces of America.