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Articles deliberating on the left-right divide, racial fissures, and even the possibility of a civil war in the US were widespread during Trump’s tumultuous tenure. And while a civil war did not precipitate, the world did witness a plethora of incidents that unveiled American societal fractures – most harrowing being the George Floyd protests and the Capitol Hill attacks.

There are just too many unanswered questions: just pretend I am a naive student in an American High School, taking a course in American government, and I would have the audacity to ask: “How is it that President Biden is not fit to run for president but he is fit to be president? Is that not a conundrum?”  Under such circumstances, how will the replacement be picked; I also think the Democratic Party is not fit to be a party!!

In Pakistan, a de facto nuclear-armed state, there are growing signs of a sharp deterioration in the domestic political situation. Generally speaking, it is not easy to identify a period of at least a few years in Pakistan’s domestic political life over the past two to three decades that could not be defined as a “crisis”…