Dearborn

Under the cover of night, our queer forebears squeezed through a narrow passage down Tooker Alley in Towertown between Dearborn and State Streets.

This messaging is present at a truly staggering scale: boxes of propagandistic newspapers from South Korea and China, Arabic-language flyers from mysterious groups distributed around Dearborn, and Haitian vaccine conspiracists on YouTube.

“Heck of a job, Dearborn. Especially you, Rashida Tlaib,” posted a political columnist.

The people in Dearborn and other Arab American enclaves—many of whom spent months telling professional Democrats what was happening in their communities and begging for a change in policy toward the war in Gaza—are watching the blame game with resignation.

It’s unclear what role the charm offensive may have played, but in Dearborn, Mich. — where more than half the population is Muslim, the largest share in any city — 42% of the vote went to Trump and 36% to Vice President Kamala Harris.