A temptation to be vigorously resisted, perhaps especially at the worst of times, is the urge to pronounce that the American epoch is finally over, that the fat lady is singing, and that the United States, so recently the world’s sole superpower, is now just another country. Like Brazil, maybe, or Australia, but without the kangaroos.
That’s what you get when you follow the logic of the temptation to its most benign verdict. A harsher finding might be that the convulsions the bierkeller Republican demagogue Donald Trump has induced in the American presidential election campaign are symptomatic of a late-stage populist …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
