This is not a political piece. Not really. It's more like a whole bunch of memories, strung together, and a plea for a reversal of the change I see sweeping the nation I love. I am a Swedish neocon, and a Jew, so I guess I am basically a unicorn. I was born in a sleepy town on Sweden's west coast in the early 1980s, when the country was an inch from being a full-blown East German state. I should be a socialist feminist performance artist, or a hipster filmmaker, passionate about gender-neutral daycare and sourdough bread. But I got lucky, and I broke away from the herd. I first stepped on U.S. soil in the spring of 1990 ...
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