Has America become a 'house divided'? » MercatorNet
If American democracy were in good health, one might make the case that last week’s storming of the Capitol building was a last gasp of despair by an unruly band of Trump supporters, egged on by the president’s incendiary allegations of electoral fraud. The truth is that it was the latest chapter in a wider process of disaffection from public institutions that has been going on for decades. The world’s oldest surviving democracy is facing a threat potentially more insidious than war itself: internal division. One of the essential foundations of any political regime is its citizens’...
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