Fergus Finlay: Democracy is dying in the US and the Democrats are allowing it to happen
Kamala Harris made one speech a couple of days after the vote and then, to all appearances, walked off the pitch. Picture: AP/John Locher
I always thought I understood how a functioning democracy should run. In fact, I probably regard myself as a bit of an expert in political practice generally. But it had never occurred to me you could have a country, calling itself a democracy, where you could be elected to power and office, trusted to run the country, but also be expected to disappear without trace if you lost the next election. Or that you could have a democratic country with a government and no opposition.
That’s the United States. Weird place. Fifty seven days ago, Joe Biden was the properly elected president of that country. Kamala Harris was his vice-president. In the election that took place last November — that’s about 125 days ago, give or take — Kamala Harris got 75 million votes. Not enough to win, but no disgrace.
Take us with you this summer.
