My feeling about this presidential election? Nauseated optimism | Robert Reich

The outcome of this fight will set the course for the US and the world for decades - and it is winnable

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I feel a nauseated optimism about the presidential election.

I chose the word nauseated over cautious because my stomach is churning at the very possibility Trump could get a second term. But I don't believe that will happen. The progressive forces in America are overtaking the regressive.

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His newest book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com