America is overdosing on the apocalypse

There are grounds to worry about the quality of US democracy but fanatics are a minority.

Liberal America's chief worry, which is not a figment of its imagination, is over the future of US democracy. PHOTO: AFP
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(FINANCIAL TIMES) - At what point do prophecies become self-fulfilling? Under America's despairing skies, the hope has to be never.

If you believe the left, Mr Joe Biden's presidency is as good as finished: US democracy's days are numbered. If you listen to the right, the nation is approaching a civil war fuelled by a globalist plot to replace Christian America with free-loading heathens.

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