The US is now an artificial, post-literary and fascist State
The country is heading to a key election appointment while we are witnessing a system change: from a constitutional democracy to another form of government in which humans are subject to machines.
The US democracy is on the brink of extinction, undermined by its own institutions. The upcoming midterms are crucial, but the country's underlying problems will persist. The author, a long-time US resident, laments the deterioration of American democracy under Donald Trump, which has led to what they describe as fascism. The author recalls Norman Mailer's 2003 warning of a "prefascist" situation in the US, which has since escalated.
Mailer had criticized President Bush's decision to invade Iraq, and the author wonders what Mailer would say today about Trump's actions.
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