'A Run Like No Other'
In a new exclusive column for the Byline Supplement, Bonnie Greer reflects on what promises to be an historic turning point for American democracy
Anyone who states, at this juncture, that they know the outcome of the 2024 Presidential election, or even that they clearly understand the issues involved, does not really know what this election is about.
On the surface, it is easy to compare it to the election of 1860, in which the nation itself and its very existence was at stake. This was clear, even to those who did not want to face it.
On the surface, the issues of 2024 seem to be clear too: an idea of America as a nation which can heal itself, and will heal itself, versus the idea of the nation as a doomed project, as an entity which must protect itself against itself. And outsiders.
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