US dodged bullet of an autocrat president, Biden faces huge challenges: Don
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Trumpism is a populist reaction against social and economic and political change that people find threatening.
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WASHINGTON - America has "dodged the bullet" of an authoritarian President, said democracy scholar and author Larry Diamond, but president-elect Joe Biden faces huge challenges in rallying most Americans around him.
Apart from controlling the Covid-19 pandemic, the key test for Mr Biden will be to generate sufficient, broadly distributed and inclusive economic growth, the Stanford University Professor of sociology and political science told The Straits Times.
