1. There’s an innovative American automotive manufacturer being run by a total bigot.
2. In large swaths of the country, a marginalized community is banned from using certain bathrooms for no other reason than to make their lives miserable.
3. Marijuana is legal in some states but not others.
4. The US experiences widespread outbreaks of childhood diseases like measles, which many parents treat with homeopathic remedies.
5. It’s trendy to call your bar a “speakeasy.”
6. The US economy is controlled by a handful of cartoonishly wealthy business tycoons.
7. Though it used to be legal everywhere, abortion is now illegal in much of the country.
8. Elites are nervous after an anticapitalist of Italian descent perpetrates an elaborate act of violence in New York City as a protest against corporate greed.
9. Conservatives are drumming up fears of socialism to scare people into voting for them.
10. Americans are disillusioned by a costly war and a global pandemic.
11. The Yankees have a slugger hitting record-breaking numbers of home runs.