‘An awakening I haven’t seen before’: Detroit voters aim to fix mistakes of 2016

Cole Thompson isn’t voting this year – he can’t because he’s only 17. But on a frigid and rainy afternoon last week, he and about half a dozen of his classmates at University of Detroit Jesuit high school fanned out in the blocks around their school to leave flyers on door handles encouraging people to vote. “Last election, we didn’t put forth our effort and we didn’t vote and it kind of backfired on us because we wound up being a Trump state…