Author and Historian Dr Tessa Dunlop says America is “severely compromised” as inner turmoil over former president Donald Trump’s indictment continues to result in fear as it “bleeds” into global geopolitics.
“What we’re looking at is something bigger, more systemic than Donald Trump … the polarization of American politics – what this has done to either side, has led to the sort of democratic rot – the lack of faith in all their key institutions which has propped up that country and led it to be the greatest country on the planet in the 20th century,” Ms Dunlop said.
“When people stop believing in the system – when they don’t know what’s true or not – when there is misinformation spread around like margarine, how do you get rid of that?“What happens in America has direct implications for the geopolitics in the world, and, at the moment, our freest democracy, our strongest military power on the planet, is severely compromised.”
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