TRUMP LOST AN ELECTION BECAUSE OF PERSONAL ENMITY NOT POLICY – BUT WILL HIS REAL ACHIEVEMENTS SURVIVE HIS DEFEAT?

Every four years, the presidential US election reminds the world that democracy can work – that even the leader of the world’s most powerful country can lose power at the hands of voters. Sure, there is some repetition - today's losers in Washington are those who won in 2016. And the history of American elections under its strong two-party system suggests that today’s losers will prevail again within a few years. And the real struggle over the White House surely cannot be reduced to a competition between two men, Trump and Biden, but rather a constant, if ...


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