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Q&A with Delaney Herndon ’17, co-president of Yale Students for Hillary

"I’m thinking about going back [home] to North Carolina and working in politics or maybe education... I doubt the Electoral College is going away anytime soon, so I’m trying to figure out concrete things that I can do."

Q&A with Benjamin Rasmussen ’18, co-chairman of the Yale New Republicans

"We want a Republican Party that can draw more votes from every demographic group. We don’t want a Republican Party dominated by middle-aged white men. However, this election has shaken some of the assumptions that we made in calling for that type of Republican Party, because Trump was gaining record numbers among some types of groups that more moderate Republicans had not done nearly as well with. So now we’re confused on where to go going forward."

Q&A with Beverly Gage, professor of American History

"I have concerns about political discourse, and how to both critique and object to, for liberals, what is bound to be a very problematic administration. At the same time, as a matter of political strategy and as a matter of citizenship, people on both sides of the aisle need to think about ways to actually have conversations about what's going on in this country that are outside of simply being in your own echo chamber. I don't think I have a great solution to that, but that seems to be one of the biggest challenges."

Q&A with Charles Hill, diplomat-in-residence and lecturer in International Studies

"It was simply that he was defiant against every person, angle, idea and behavior that the bulk of the population in the middle of the country were fed up with. It didn’t matter exactly what he was saying; all he had to be was against it. The more that he was against it, the more he was reviled and attacked by the media. The more the media attacked him, the more credibility he got with the population."

Q&A with Max Goldberg ’17, Spectrum Fellowship director at the Office of LGBTQ Resources

"So it’s not necessarily that we’ll see a step backwards in LGBT issues, but we’re going to see a halt in progress, and a movement that will hopefully refocus away from the federal level — except for the realm of very specific litigation related to employment. Of all the issues that a Donald Trump presidency is really going to threaten, I don’t think progress already made on LGBT issues is a concern."

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