‘I Can’t Go Back’: Trump and the New American Brain Drain - WhoWhatWhy

‘I Can’t Go Back’: Trump and the New American Brain Drain - WhoWhatWhy

Carter Freshour was sitting in a bar in Barcelona on US election night last November, watching the presidential numbers roll in with his friends, when it hit him: “I can’t go back to the United States.”  The 22-year-old business student was born to American parents in Washington, DC, and has since lived in multiple US states, as well as Guatemala. He has been living in Phoenix since he was 17. Shaped by a highly mobile upbringing, he had already…