US Politics

Marion McKeone: US will continue its dance at the edge of democracy next year

With Trump tilting for the White House again, pursued by three criminal indictments, and the country’s legal pillars crumbling under the weight of right-wing political expediency, it will be more of the same car crash politics in 2023

Donald Trump, the former US president: grappling with a steady erosion of support within the GOP. Picture: Getty

A combustible mix of the same old political war games and forays into uncharted new political and legal territory, will ensure that 2023 brings no respite from the bitter partisanship that has dogged America for more than a decade, but never more so than in the past three years.

In Congress, Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, will relinquish the gavel to the Republican party, which will control the house with the ...