The Debasing of American Politics
Election 2016
The debasing of American politics
Healthy democracies depend on unwritten rules. The Republican nominee has trampled all over them
Oct 15th 2016
A British Magazine Just Summed Up The U.S. Election Perfectly
Just in case it wasn’t obvious what they were getting at, the magazine posted an animated version on Twitter:
The Economist ✔@TheEconomist
Donald Trump has taken a knuckle-duster to American political culture
https://www.google.com/amp/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_580073a2e4b06e04759420c4/amp?
FROM THE ECONOMIST:
SNIP
"The recording of him boasting about grabbing women “by the pussy”, long before he was a candidate, was unpleasant enough.
More worrying still has been the insistence by many Trump supporters that his behaviour was normal.
So too his threat, issued in the second presidential debate, to have Hillary Clinton thrown into jail if he wins. In a more fragile democracy that sort of talk would foreshadow post-election violence.
Mercifully, America is not about to riot on November 9th.
But the reasons have less to do with the state’s power to enforce the letter of the law than with the unwritten rules that American democracy thrives on. It is these that Mr Trump is trampling over—and which Americans need to defend."
More at link
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21708723-healthy-democracies-depend-unwritten-rules-republican-nominee-has-trampled-all-over?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/thedebasingofamericanpolitics