THE CURRENT Issue 619 · July 20, 2016

Can Anyone Make America Great Again?

Two political conventions, in two consecutive weeks, nominating two candidates who couldn’t possibly be farther apart in their worldviews, have turned into a sideshow in a world that is coming unhinged.

Can    Anyone    Make    America    Great    Again?

Can Trump (here with vice-presidential running mate Mike Pence) convince voters that he can heal the racial devide?

Two political conventions in two consecutive weeks nominating two candidates who couldn’t possibly be farther apart in their worldviews have turned into a sideshow in a world that is coming unhinged. Donald Trump promises to make America great again. His opponent Hillary Clinton retorts those are merely code words for taking America backward.

America is hurtling backward whether Hillary likes it or not and Donald Trump will be just as hard pressed to reverse that trend if he should win in November.

America as it nears Election Day 2016 is beginning to resemble the America of the 1960s when racial violence plagued inner cities and murders and violent crime spiked to levels not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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