As President Trump still refuses to accept his election defeat, Travis Goodman finds himself gaming out what kind of “power grab” the outgoing president could stage, from continuing to contest the results to trying to disrupt the Electoral College process.
“I’m full of anxiety all the time,” said Goodman, an accounting clerk at a manufacturing firm in Goshen, Ind. “These institutional norms where I was told to go get a job and a 401(k) full of money so you can retire, you know, and live a decent happy life — is there going to be a boiling-over point where these things don’t matter?”
During this rocky presidential transition, NPR asked Americans how the nation can move forward. More than 600 people weighed in, many citing fears about the future of U.S. democracy and apprehension about a lame-duck Trump presidency and the transition to Joe Biden’s administration.
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