My Political Evolution: A Memoir
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6 min readNov 1, 2020
For the first 21 years of my life, all the people I loved were Republicans.
“I wouldn’t put that bumper sticker on your car; you might make the wrong impression.” This was my father telling me not to advertise my political views, especially as I sought a job after graduate school. The bumper sticker was John Culver for Senator (who would lose to Charles Grassley). Culver was a liberal Iowa Democrat who had…