Joseph Lim :mastodon:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@raymondpert" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>raymondpert</span></a></span> <br>👇<br>"US is in its <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/crisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crisis</span></a> in no small part bec its <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>political</span></a> institutions make it more structurally susceptible to populist <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capture</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> than oth Western democracies. Its parties, thx to their free-for-all presidential primaries & weak orgz'nal wings, r on paper(GOP, in reality) prone to being hijacked by charismatic outsiders. A rigid 2-party sys created by an unrepresentative, winner-take-all electoral sys reinforces partisan & ideo polarisation"<br><a href="https://eastasiaforum.org/2025/04/06/trump-white-ants-us-democracy-and-opens-a-yawning-value-gap-with-americas-allies/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eastasiaforum.org/2025/04/06/t</span><span class="invisible">rump-white-ants-us-democracy-and-opens-a-yawning-value-gap-with-americas-allies/</span></a></p>