The US Is Now A Failed State
Donald Trump's leadership has been so catastrophic that even a win in November might not be enough to turn the country around.
by Ben Cohen
The view from outside of the United States is clear: America is no longer a functioning democracy and is deteriorating rapidly into a failed state.
Under Donald Trump, the systems of checks and balances has broadly failed to curtail his autocratic instincts. He sailed through impeachment for obvious crimes against his own country, ignored damning intelligence reports from America’s agencies with no consequence, destroyed America’s professional civil service, and turned the White House into a piranha infested swamp of cronyism. Trump staffers think nothing of ignoring court issued subpoenas, cut press conferences short when Trump can’t answer questions, and propagate lies from the Oval Office on a daily basis.
And this was all before the worst pandemic in 100 years hit the United States and exposed far more lethal layers of Trump’s corruption and incompetence — all of which has gone almost completely unchecked.
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