US Politics
Marion McKeone: Things go from bad to worse in the US
Trump’s grip on the GOP strengthened in 2023, damaging America’s role as a moral leader and defender of freedom
It has been a dismal year for democracy and a banner year for authoritarians and despots. And nowhere was this truer than in the US, which succumbed to authoritarian creep as its institutions of democracy – executive, judicial and legislative – appeared willing to jettison the US’s role as a moral leader and defender of freedom for myopic political and ideological gains.
The first sign that 2023 was going to be a hellish year politically ...
