Arash Azizi: “Wednesday’s election results will have left many Americans who opposed Donald Trump feeling angry at their neighbors. How could over 70 million people vote for a convicted felon who cohabited with a fascist, showed little respect for the institutions or allies of the state, and could not even promise not to rule as a dictator? Some foreign observers on social media seemed to have a similar reaction, seeing in Trump the worst traits of the American caricature: egotism, narcissism, chauvinism and carelessness.”
“But this bias was unfair on November 4th and will remain unfair on November 8th. Yes. Trump is a true native son of this country and some of its worst tendencies have allowed him to prosper. And yes, it is. “People who care about America’s future have a right to worry about the tendencies he has unleashed or exploited: authoritarianism, misogyny, and conspiracism.”
“Still, this country has always been a land of great and beautiful contradictions.”
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