Deja Vu in politics: This time Trump knows the playbook  

Raina Maiga “Are you all up?”& Sitting alone in my room, I kept refreshing The Associated Press 2024 election map on my phone. The only way I knew how to escape the tense, unbearable wait was to reach out.& One by one, I messaged each of my close friends, asking if they were following the election. And one by one, they all responded with what felt like an answer I’d heard a thousand times before: “Yes.”& Millions of young people across the nation watched as their country made the ultimate decision: four years back or forward. For many of us, this moment felt familiar, a replay of an election where the stakes were nothing less than the most fundamental of human rights and the hope that our nation would vote to protect them.& Reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ protections, economic prosperity, the crisis in Gaza and perhaps most personal of all, whether our nation is informed enough to pay attention.& As I sat glued to my phone, refreshing the election results and reaching out to friends, the weight of these issues felt overwhelming. We had been here before, watching and waiting, hoping for an outcome that would safeguard our future. But this...