Regardless of the outcome — even if Clinton does make history by becoming the first woman to sit in the Oval Office — enormous damage has already been inflicted on American political life. The United States’ most bitter rivals, from Moscow to Tehran, are delighted by the sorry spectacle of this election season. Trump’s claim that the American political system is “rigged” is perhaps his single biggest crime against a healthy democratic culture. Trump has unleashed a flood of nativist feeling and outright racism that will pollute American political life for a long time to come. He’s given public permission for the worst kind of prejudice, always simmering below the surface of American public life.

Source: thestar November 04, 2016 21:10 UTC