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Our huge kidney shortage doesn't make a lot of sense because, unlike hearts and lungs, there's no shortage of healthy kidneys, pumping away in most of us, primed for donation. And in the 30 years she's been studying organ donation since then, she says she's seen how ineffective and even counterproductive our system can be. And she eventually even became a medical ethicist. That concern led Sigrid to begin studying organ donation. But for several years, doctors worried that he might need a transplant. He's now in his 20s and functioning just fine on his one healthy kidney. When Sigrid's son was 10 months old, he lost a kidney to cancer. This wasn't Sigrid's first experience with our kidney donation system. Most patients on dialysis never get one and die within those five years. The average wait for a kidney is five years. And the reason he liked Trump, they both said, was something much deeper about Alex, something I didn't see on my own. They think if Rubio's campaign had called, he might be working for Rubio right now. He really wants to be a political organizer. There is this other thing that both Alex's parents said to me separately when I asked why their son was into Trump? They said Trump's campaign reached out to Alex, remember. He won the young people and the old people, people who live in cities and in the country.
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It's this alchemical mix of where we grew up, and who we respect, and whether we woke up this morning and were full of hope or full of fear.Īnd with Trump, maybe with any outsider candidate, Sanders or 2008 Obama, there seem to be so many idiosyncratic personal journeys that lead supporters to him. But, of course, the way we choose our candidates is not a science.
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He's not voting like a black voter, or a young voter, or a Christian voter, or a gay voter, or a Southern voter. All the ways that reporters and political consultants slice up populations, they don't apply to him. So we have peace at home.Īlex, you've probably figured out by now, fits into no known category of voter. I just sort of- I think the Lord just jumped over my heart. It really started with that coming out, isn't that what they call it? And Jan and I prayed about it. So there's been some of that combat at home, the real intense sort of combative, you could cut the environment with a knife. He said, "I want out." And he started- so I slowed down. You don't order your dad to do something. Pull over." And I wasn't going to let him order me to pull over. "So that's way it's going to be?" I said, "absolutely." So anyway, he jumped out of the car because I said, "no, I'm not taking you there." And he said something else. Because you need to get a job for which you don't require transportation.ĭo you see what I'm saying? It needs to be walkable. You need to go over here and get a bag boy job at Publix or go down here to Babham's Feed and Seed and get a job down there toting feed and seed, if they'll hire you. I said, I'm not taking you to interview over there. I had no idea the conversation would lead where it did, which was way beyond Trump.Īnd I didn't want him work at that place because I wanted him- because it was over at the mall. Trump, for some reason, is Alex's safe place. He was using Trump to reconcile two very irreconcilable things about himself- deeply conservative, super-gay.
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He's surrounded by people he loves and respects. And he's in a very conservative evangelical Christian family. If gay marriage is your issue, why Trump?Īlex told me that church is the center of his family life. He seemed like he was in the weirdest position of anyone I was meeting, voting for the first time, so young and intense about his beliefs, which just, like, did not match. But the whole time I was still wondering about Alex. I drove to Greenville to meet with some morning radio show hosts. We weren't scheduled to meet again.Īfterward, I went and interviewed other voters, a conservative South Carolina blogger. "Like, are you out of your mind? The choices are between a soon to be indicted liar," Alex says, "and a socialist.