A journey in search of the American left: fragile and feisty, hopeful and fearful
(The Guardian United States)

The first in a five-day series where our writer gauges the mood of US progressives during a 10-day trip across the country.A few months after the 2016 election, 29-year-old Emily Marburger posted an update on a private Facebook group, Pantsuit Nation, that had been set up to support Hillary Clinton´s failed presidential bid.`Like the rest of us last November, I woke up to a situation I didn´t know existed,` she wrote. `I knew I had to get involved. I felt driven to help. But I never imagined I´d find myself, at 29, running for Mayor in the heated Democratic primary in my tiny square mile borough of 8,000 (just outside Pittsburgh).` Continue reading...