Free vote: Fireworks light up the sky around the Washington Monument at the 2020 Republican National Convention. American voters will decide in November on a new leadership as the rest of the world watches closely. — AP
AS THE world rapidly transforms, are we in illusion or denial? Reality does not feel real whenever we switch on CNN to watch the reality show coming out of the White House. Those who hope for some normalcy will have to wait till November when the American voters decide.
And those who believe in democracy will worry like New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, whether the 2020 US elections would have “a free and fair vote and the prospect of a peaceful transfer of power are both in question?”
Former US deputy national-security adviser Nadia Schadlow has penned an important article in ForeignAffairs.com on “The end of the American illusion”. She argued cogently that US policymakers were “beguiled by a set of illusions about the world order, where they see the world as wishful thinking rather than reality”.
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