This decay has already started, and Trump has done substantial damage. He has deepened an already substantial polarisation within society, and turned the US from a high-trust to a low-trust society; he has demonised the government and weakened belief that it represents the collective interests of Americans; he has coarsened political rhetoric and given permission for overt expressions of bigotry and misogyny; and he has convinced a majority of Republicans that his predecessor was an illegitimate president who stole the 2020 election.
The breadth of the Republican victory, extending from the presidency to the Senate and probably to the House of Representatives as well, will be interpreted as a strong political mandate confirming these ideas and allowing Trump to act as he pleases. We can only hope that some of the remaining institutional guardrails will remain in place as he takes office. But it may be that things will have to get a lot worse before they get better.
https://www.ft.com/content/f4dbc0df-ab0d-431e-9886-44acd4236922
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no one cares neighbor. Good for u that u played hoi or read history books in high school while everyone else was getting laid. frick u think u are on this dumbass empty sub writin up words words words so everyone else n this circlejerk can read this n be like "wow this guy is so smart! i bet he wears suits and smokes a pipe in real life!" u work at burger king dawg get me a whopper double quick.
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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