Author: Jack Hassard

The United States could lose its democracy if the Trumpist far-right demagogues gain the White House. As Umair points out in his post, Emanuel Macron, president of France, warned the French people that France’s democracy could die and said it depends entirely on the choices made now. The United States is in the same situation France faced until last Sunday. The center and left of France came together and formed a Republican Front. In French politics, the “republican front” describes a combined effort of several mainstream political parties and their voters to minimize the changes of the far right winning elections.