Cecelia Lynch, professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, [writes]: The earthquake of the wee hours of 11/9/16 in the U.S. was very different than that of the morning of 9/11/2001, but both have shaken our polity in ways that we did not foresee, and in ways whose consequences cannot be predicted.

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