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America’s Challenges Show Democracy Is a Journey and No One Has Ever Arrived

Prof Makau Mutua reflects on recent developments in the United States of America; The continuing centrality of race in all matters American; The USA’s troubled history with black people since the slaves who built the Capital Hill that was invaded by trump supporters and the deepening global exhaustion with markets and capitalism generally. White nationalism remains the deadliest clear and present threat to democracy in the USA.

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