Rep. Mikie Sherrill, the centrist who helped launch the inquiry into Trump, is discovering the limits of bipartisan goodwill among her constituents
Mikie Sherrill’s district directors began the town hall in a filled community center Monday night with her customary call for civility. Hanover Township Cub Scout Troop 155 led the crowd in the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance. An elementary school teacher sang a rousing national anthem. Everybody clapped and then sat down together in rows and rows of plastic folding chairs. Then came the first question.
me tearfully in her office on Capitol Hill, was a “1776 kind of fight”—a fight, potentially, for the continued existence of the democracy. She also said she knew she must explain clearly and carefully to her constituentsSo here she was, two months later, barely more than a year after she was elected, in a right-leaning part of her district, miked up, dressed in red shoes and a blue blazer, standing in front of a colossal American flag ….
What became more and more evident as the evening went on, though, was that this explanation was not enough. Not for everybody. Because impeachment didn’t stop coming up. Trump didn’t stop coming up. Since ISherrill at the beginning of the year, I’ve been to almost all of her town halls—in a rec center gym, in a middle school auditorium, at an assisted living facility, in the council chambers of a rural borough.
A woman in a fur coat, a Republican named Ruth Anne, on the other hand, didn’t think the question was “off the wall.” She thought thewas. “Very disturbing,” she told me. “I thought, by now, after the two weeks of hearings, she would have seen, ‘Oh, my God, there’s nothing there.’” She wouldn’t tell me her last name.
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