‘Cathy, I’m lost, I said though I knew she was sleeping,And I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why,Counting the cars on the New Jersey TurnpikeThey’ve all come to look for America’. Few could have imagined that Paul Simon’s haunting and plangent 1968 anthem for a lost America, one that was trying to exit its Vietnam disaster, might become emblematic for the America of 2020. When we awake after the election, what America will we find? What version of America will we have inherited? The world looks on, enthralled. But the result has huge implications for all of us.…

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