NOTEBOOK: For more people than we realize, fascism is a "strong opinion, lightly held"

A story about a voter in a divided state -- and a case for hope over despair

This is a story about one voter in one divided state, and how the pro-democracy movement should not despair but rather buck up and get to work, because a lot of people’s seemingly dangerous convictions are more shallow than we think.

So I meet this charming Egyptian-American man in North Carolina yesterday. He tells me he is likely voting for Trump. He s…