How a legal move in America’s red states could help Trump voters cope with Biden’s win, and stop an uprising
- Voters in several conservative states have agreed to legalise marijuana use, giving them a way to deal with their cognitive dissonance and post-election misery
- The move might just be the US’ best hope of keeping the start of a civil war at bay
Biden will do his best to reverse an orientation in Washington that made America unrecognisable to its closest allies soon after US President Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017 and, for the world’s autocracies, a new member of their club.
However, the president-elect’s words, while welcome and necessary, won’t be enough to eliminate the rancour that, more than any time in at least half a century, threatens to tear the country apart.
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Joe Biden declares ‘clear victory’ after tight US 2020 presidential race
His victory was not the landslide that some polls had predicted. While Biden got more votes than any presidential candidate in America’s history, Trump took second place in that category. More than 71 million people cast their votes for a man who has relied so heavily on divisiveness for political expediency that he was never willing to condemn white supremacy.