Running battles between protesters and law enforcement agencies; a crackdown on demonstrators; curfew in cities; universities being challenged; students being imprisoned; and different parts of the government at odds with each other. This is not some tin-pot dictatorship in the third world. This is today’s United States of America. The last few days have seen raging fires burning on the streets of Los Angeles and, then, spreading to other major American cities with little impact on the policy response from the White House. Donald Trump’s second-term presidency is fast emerging as a defining moment in the US’s socio-political evolution. An exemplar for the rest of the world, the US today reeks of social polarisation and political dysfunctionalities, reminiscent of the innumerable nations in the developing world to which the political pundits in Washington have usually proffered advice on governance.
Discontent in Trumpland (Harsh V. Pant – Observer Research Foundation)
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