Trump

[Brentbaggie]

The mistake that too many people make is to imagine that the USA is a single country - it isn't. It is a nation of states, many of which are more diametrically opposed in ethnic, class, and religious affiliation than most of Europe.. The inhabitants of New Mexico and Arkansas have very little to do with or interest in New York or California and their concerns are similarly disaffected. In many ways it is a failing state while at the same time more economically prosperous than anywhere else on Earth.

It is probably only its sheer financial clout allied to its extraordinary technological ingenuity that maintains the former. And yet with all this, at the same time I have sat in a hotel room in San Francisco unable to get an internet connection due to the infrastructure there being worse than in Moldova. A truly schizophrenic nation reflected in the polarity and disaffection of the two halves of the electorate.