Everyone from Wharton students to Garrison Keillor to hundreds of American authors have penned open letters to Donald Trump telling him more or less to cut it out, with varying degrees of effectiveness. Now, an anti-Trump super PAC wants to make it a little easier to stand up to the Republican nominee and tell him, "you don't represent us" — no matter who the "us" might be.
"Based in New York, the new group called Not Who We Are will serve as a clearinghouse for open letters rejecting the Republican nominee, providing both templates for the letters and a hub for outreach to get groups to adopt them, with digital organizing that will include paid social media," Politico reports, based on comments from people involved with the super PAC.
While it isn't clear who is funding Not Who We Are, some of the first letters will come from Costco, Oracle, and VMware employees, with Vets Against Trump and "Deadheads" also working on letters ("[Trump] stands for everything EVIL and is not who WE ARE," the Deadheads write).
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Intrigued? Not Who We Are suggests starting your letter with, "As a community, we affirm the values that make us who we are: diversity, openness, and compassion. Join me in saying: Donald Trump is not who America is, and he is not who ____ is."
It is up to you to fill in the blank.
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