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While leftwingers everywhere are hoping for an end to the Trumpian era, voting him out is no panacea for the US’s deep-rooted problems, says STEVEN WALKER

SOCIALISTS around the world are hoping for a change of leader in the forthcoming presidential elections in the US.
Anything but four more years of Donald Trump is a natural feeling when his ghastly record is examined.
But his divisive, unhinged, racist and misogynist policies and behaviours have revealed, rather than caused, the institutional, endemic and structural racism in the US.
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