'Sully' Sullenberger slams 'cowardly, complicit enablers' leading America

Sully Sullenberger.
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The "hero of the Hudson" is back, and this time he wants to be a hero of democracy.

Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger steered a 154-passenger flight to a safe emergency landing in the Hudson River back in 2009. But he wasn't about to let a Tom Hanks-led retelling of his story cap off his career, so he authored an op-ed in The Washington Post encouraging Americans to fight back against the "cowardly, complicit enablers" currently leading the country.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.