Opinion: A Message to Liberals from a Former Trump Supporter
By Tom Cassara ’23, Guest Columnist In 2016, my high school had a mock election ahead of the presidential election. The school’s administration had a voting booth brought in and placed in our schools’ main cafeteria. It represented a pretty solid exercise in civic preparedness. Over the course of several days, students could vote during school hours, reinforcing the notion that voting should be personal and private. As a social...
Opinion: In Spite of the Election, Keep Being You
By Michael DeRenzo, Guest Columnist With the 2024 Presidential Election coming to a close, I had a few thoughts that I would like to share. I am not a woman. I am not a black person. I am not part of the LGBTQ+ community. I am not a Latino, or an immigrant from outside the United States. Yet my heart aches for these all these communities. I do not see this election as a matter of left versus right. In fact, there are things about...
Opinion: Warning From a Former Trump Supporter
By Michael DeRenzo, Guest Columnist Back in 2016, I was an avid supporter of then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump. His personality was bold and brash; with my then-limited impression of him, I was led to believe that anything and everything he stood up for, he represented the vast majority of us. Ideas that were once considered crazy and lunatic, such as wanting Mexico to pay for a future border wall that would deter illegal...
Opinion: Vote For a Candidate You Can Be Proud Of
By Leah Nath, Staff Columnist In his final address before retirement, George Washington expressed his explicit opposition to the concept of partisanship and the two-party system due to his fears that parties would eventually prioritize their own interests over the common good. For many Americans, political parties have become an aspect of identity, where people share that they are a Democrat or a Republican, a conservative or a...
Opinion: Vote Like Your Life Depends on It. This Election, It Does.
By Alisha LeVine and Brenna Hadley of College Democrats I’m sure many of us remember where we were when we learned the results of the 2016 Presidential Election. The Trump presidency spun American politics on its head. A businessman with zero political, policy or military experience assumed the position of Commander-in-Chief. Typically, a newly elected president makes attempts to unify the nation in this period of transition. Trump,...
Placing Country Over Party: A Joint Condemnation of Political Violence
Opinion by College Republicans and College Democrats One hundred and sixty years ago, the eyes of the nation turned towards Pennsylvania as news poured in of a great battle in the small town of Gettysburg. Our democracy hung in the balance as our countrymen fought for two separate visions of what the future of this continent would look like. Over 50,000 Americans were killed, wounded or declared missing after three days of intense...
