An alarmingly large majority of American voters have said they believe the country's political system has failed them. They want to vote another way, they want to look at things another way. Distrust and disdain run very deep.
Perhaps it is the Vibecession. Perhaps it is the agitated focus on inflation. The trouble is, Americans do generally feel themselves to be in economic bother and Donald Trump is hoping that voters will decide they were better off under his presidency than they are now.
If one looks to the admittedly old-fashioned unit of the letter to the editor as a means of gauging the “temperature”, as Siobhán Brett has for the past 24 months as the opinion editor of a local newspaper in New England, Americans are at sea.
After a move from Brooklyn to rural Maine, writer Siobhán Brett shares perspectives on the US election from a town where two votes separated Joe Biden from Donald Trump at Friday's latest ballot count.
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