I am an American living in Oxford, England. An acquaintance – still shell-shocked – told me this morning he had unwittingly joined pro-Trump students to watch the election at the Oxford Union building. ‘They were wearing “Make America Great Again” baseball caps,’ he said, ‘and when the race got close I told them to take them off, that it really wasn’t a funny joke. Then I realized it wasn’t a joke.’ As the map turned red, he said, the entire room started chanting, ‘Lock her up, lock her up.’
These are University of Oxford students, not the uneducated stereotype. We must look deeper.
In my role as a researcher, I try not to ask leading questions. I am trained to listen, to observe. After the data collection comes the analysis. At the end of academic articles comes a section we call, the Discussion.
