“The USA found itself in the state of Russia in August 1991” - American professor
Regardless of who wins the election race, “the United States has already lost this election,” since the phenomenon of “Trumpism” is firmly ingrained in the American political system.
Robert Legvold, emeritus professor of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University and director of the Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative, said this during a discussion at the Valdai Club, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We don't know who will win the election, but we know who lost it. The US lost the election because in a technical sense we may have a winner, but the country itself failed to do what was necessary, to vote in a moral sense, to return the US to its roots, to have confidence, a sense of responsibility. And such a moral vote did not happen.
In fact, we will have a ratio of 50 to 49 and so on. The most important thing for our country, from an evolutionary point of view, is to end the Trump administration well, but this phenomenon of Trumpism, what the Republican Party has become, is still unlikely to change, because the gap is not that big. They will feel more or less confident and will remain the party of Trump, Trumpism.
There are three points here. It’s like Russia in August 1991: the political system is in stasis (stagnation - ed.), and the elections are such that no major issues have been resolved, and the nature of the political system does not change for the better,” Legwald said.
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