Writing in today’s Financial Times, the very clever Janan Ganesh said of today’s divided America, “… the question of what day of the week it is will generate a 50-50 polling result”.
Imagine how farcical the nation’s name would be had it been the United People of America instead of the United States of America.
The current bitter political division is far from the normal left-right divide in a democracy. Instead it’s bound up in hatred and malice, a very unhealthy state of affairs.