John Robson is the Executive Director of the Climate Discussion Nexus, a documentary film-maker, a columnist with the National Post, the Epoch Times and Loonie Politics, and a professor at Augustine College. He holds a PhD in American history from the University of Texas at Austin.
How can the United States, of all places, be vulnerable to despotism? It would no longer be sensible to deny the danger, and not only because of Donald Trump. The former Land of the Free now has a government capable of trampling people's rights in ways big and small and a populace in a state of mutual hostility and loathing not seen since the runup to the Civil War.
Date posted: 2024-07-04