US Democracy ‘Ceased to Be Working Well’ Before Trump
- The journalist Carl Bernstein said US democracy faced challenges before Trump’s election.
- In a talk with The Guardian, Bernstein said that the US had been in “a cold civil war” for decades.
- Bernstein said that Trump’s electoral base is more than just a narrow subset of the population.
The acclaimed investigative journalist Carl Bernstein said in a recent interview that American democracy faced enormous challenges before Donald Trump assumed office in 2017, but argued the former president “ignited” a “cold civil war” in the country.
Bernstein, who recently released his memoir, “Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom,” told The Guardian that the United States had not been functioning smoothly for several decades. He said it would take an extraordinary event in the coming years to unify the country.
“Our democracy, before Trump, had ceased to be working well and for 25, 30, 35 years we