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How seeing Bruce Springsteen in DC gave me hope

The Boss took Washington back to a time when dissent mattered

Published May 29, 2026 9:35AM (EDT)

After dealing with Donald Trump for the better part of the last decade, it was not until Wednesday night that I finally understood the difference between my childhood and today. I credit Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for making that distinction clear.

Springsteen rode into Washington, D.C., to play in the driving rain for 40,000 fans at Nationals Park with the energy of a 19-year-old — and the insight of a 76-year-old who lived through the same divisiveness I experienced as a child. His performance, according to Nils Lofgren, one of the guitarists in the 19-piece E Street Band, was a “brutally honest and melodic statement of Truth.”

To say that things have dramatically changed in the United States since I was a child in the 1960s is an understatement. It’s not the gaping hole in the ground that used to be the White House’s East Wing – which gives the unpleasant impression the executive mansion is rebuilding from a bombing. It’s not the circus-like cage arena currently being built on the South Lawn for an upcoming UFC event. It’s not the convicted felon who is our president, nor his proposed slush fund for those who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection. It’s not the wars in Iran or Ukraine, nor is it the lazy malfeasance dominating Congress. It isn’t even the daily acts of revenge Trump enacts against James Comey, E. Jean Carroll or any of his other imagined enemies. It’s not the multiple assassination attempts.

Twice in a span of 17 days in 1975, someone tried to kill President Gerald Ford – one of them........

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