It’s 3am on Election Day on America’s East Coast. Tuesday’s NYT A1: 
It’s 3am the day after Election Day on America’s East Coast. Wednesday’s NYT A1:
The most salient story from this front page, in my view:
The World’s Democracies Ask: Why Can’t America Fix Itself?
“alarm over the United States’ direction, as it slides away from ideals it once pressed other nations to adopt.”
nytimes.com/2022/11/08/wor…
The World’s Democracies Ask: Why Can’t America Fix Itself?
“alarm over the United States’ direction, as it slides away from ideals it once pressed other nations to adopt.”
nytimes.com/2022/11/08/wor…
“They wonder why a superpower famous for innovation is unable to address its deep polarization, producing a president who spread false claims of election fraud that significant parts of the Republican Party and the electorate have embraced.”
“A lot of people imagined that Trump was this sort of idiosyncratic one-off and once he was gone, he was no longer president, everything would click back into normal gear,” said Malcolm Turnbull, Australia’s center-right ex-prime minister “And that’s clearly not the case.”
“Jennifer McCoy, a political scientist, said partisan divisions have kept the United States stuck in place, but so has myopia: Americans rarely look abroad for ideas.
‘We have such a myth around our Constitution and American exceptionalism.’”
‘We have such a myth around our Constitution and American exceptionalism.’”
In Lithuania, Arkadijus Vinokuras, 70, is an actor and activist who helps organize pro-Ukraine rallies.
“Now,” he said, “even the biggest fan of the U.S. has to ask the question: How could this happen to the guarantor of democracy?”
“Now,” he said, “even the biggest fan of the U.S. has to ask the question: How could this happen to the guarantor of democracy?”
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