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American meltdown: a democratic disaster

What if no one accepts the election result?

3 October 2020

9:00 AM

3 October 2020

9:00 AM

Tuesday night’s debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden was a hopeless mess — a national embarrassment. For 90 minutes, two cantankerous and incoherent old men ignored the rules, shouted over each other and ruined the event. Trump insulted Biden’s intelligence and his children. Biden told Trump to ‘shut up’ and called him ‘a clown’.

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spectator.co.uk/podcast - Matt Purple is a senior editor at the American Conservative and a writer for The Spectator’s monthly US edition (spectator.us/subscribe). He discusses on the podcast how November’s election could send America into disarray.

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