As Biden-Trump rematch becomes more certain, Super Tuesday raises other questions

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There may be no greater evidence toward the phrase ‘the country is broken’ than the unsavoury November choice the political system is serving up

Ballots that have been sorted sit in bins at the Denver Elections Division during the presidential primary in Denver on Super Tuesday, March 5.

“The result may be that this is now an ungovernable country,” Thomas Whelan, a Boston University historian, said in an interview. “We’ve been building up to this but now both sides refuse to talk to each other and refuse to see any good in each other. This is like a sullen Thanksgiving dinner in a dysfunctional family.”

This time, Super Tuesday – once a joyful political house party, where Americans gathered around the television watching each state check in with its results – is marked by an inevitable, joyless march to two presidential nominations by two contenders who have managed to have no appeal to members of the opposite party.

 

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