Americans in the Netherlands: reflections on the “home front”
Dutch NewsA lot has gone down since president Donald Trump took office on January 20. “It’s just all horrifying, but like a train wreck, I can’t seem to look away,” says flight attendant and Dutch resident Candace Kabela. “Measles spreading…and, as an airline employee, all the mess they’re creating with air traffic controllers, doing away with the aviation safety board and now refusing the TSA its pay raise.” You can’t go home again Shapiro says his wife jokes with him to visit “home” sooner rather than later—“before Trump bans all travel from the EU or Russia decides to take over the North Atlantic or there are no more air traffic controllers. “Those relationships have to be reshaped.” Flying blind But for Joshua M. Tybur, professor of psychology and infectious disease at Amsterdam’s VU university, the first months of Trump’s presidency have been disastrous. “To see a small concentration of people making decisions outside of normal processes is depressing.” He’s worried about his parents back home in Arizona, who depend on social security and medicare to live.
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