Opinion: Has America's Politics Become A Threat To The Idea Of America?

It signals something deeper: the normalisation of extreme rhetoric and the erosion of institutional trust between political camps

For much of its sociological evolution, the United States functioned as a broadly consensus-driven society, fractious and often sharply divided, yet anchored in a shared set of ideals such as constitutionalism, peaceful transfer of power, and the legitimacy of democratic institutions.

Differences were real, sometimes bitter, but........

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