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Letters | Yes, America is tearing itself apart: with Trump and his team leading the charge
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In his Insight article “Tearing itself apart” (September 24) Robert Boxwell achieves an astounding feat in opining on the disintegration of American political life while furthering the divisions. He blames the coarsening of American politics on the Democratic Party but ignores the Republican elephant in the room and the occupant of the Oval Office. What the author leaves out is telling.
Democrats are labelled as “apoplectic” while the Republican Party is let off with a wrist-slapping “aren’t much better”; but even this weak admission soon pivots to unfounded conspiracy theorising.
While decrying hidden bias in the media, Boxwell projects dark fantasies about Democrats disputing the election results this November. Unfortunately, he does so on the same day that Donald Trump publicly avers from the White House that he will not quietly accept an election defeat – threatening a hitherto sacrosanct tradition of peacefully transferring power.
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Boxwell cedes all moral ground when he glibly concedes that Trump may be compromised by Russia with a “Who knows, maybe he is?” shrug.
Could it be, as Boxwell posits, that America is really collapsing under a Democratic assault? Or is it not much more likely that the grievous effects unleashed by a callous, self-absorbed president are driving our historic foment?
Could it be that Americans are righteously annoyed? Or that they are fed up over Republicans’ politically driven efforts to separate families – at the border and in our living rooms, or their moral failure to call out racism as evil, or the basic incompetence behind the world’s richest nation owning the highest Covid-19 death toll?
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