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Election Fever: A Fever Dream?
How can clinging to the Democratic Party — the party that betrayed the cause of working people — be the answer to the rise in popularity of its right-wing movement posing as an alternative, asks ZOLTAN ZIGEDY

WITH nearly 16 months to go until the US presidential elections, we are well into the silly season. The campaigning, fundraising, manoeuvring, plotting and mud-slinging have already reached a fever-pitch.
We are told that the 2024 election — like every presidential election in my lifetime — holds the fate of the country in its grip.
Maybe it does.
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