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How these older voters who backed Harris are engaging in ‘quiet resistance’
By John King, CNN
8 minute read
Published 6:00 AM EST, Tue November 26, 2024
How seniors who voted for Harris are feeling about Trump's win
05:05 - Source: CNN

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania CNN — Pat Levin, 95 years young, is wrestling daily with something new and depressing.

“It’s left me very afraid,” she said of the 2024 election. “Afraid of the future. Afraid of everything.”

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“I want to fight,” Levin said in an interview last week. “I don’t want to fight. I think I have to. Because I think there’s no such thing as staying neutral. I think once you stay neutral, it’s the oppressor who wins and the oppressed who suffer.”

Levin is a lifelong Democrat who wasn’t happy when Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush won the presidency. But never did if feel like this. Her Republican neighbors tell her to relax, that it will all be fine. Levin trusts her instincts.

“I see a man who is not — or a regime now — who is not paying much attention to our history and our norms,” Levin said. “Say what you’d like, but I’m scared. … I’m afraid. Not so afraid for me — I’m not going to be around probably to experience it. But I’m afraid for those I love, for those I don’t love, those I know, those I don’t know. It’s all those people coming after me who might have to live under this.”

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Levin sees women’s rights in retreat; lies and distortions that go largely unchallenged; meanness toward immigrants; and disdain for civility and democratic norms.

“It’s a scary thing when you think about — is Elon Musk the shadow president?” Levin said. “Isn’t that scary to have to ask that question? Have we ever had to ask that before?”

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