2016 elections: How the fury of the presidential campaign has ripped the US apart | In English | EL PAÍS

“There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African American to the presidency of the United States.” The specter of racism – the original sin of the world’s most powerful nation – seemed to disappear.
For the first time, the country of slavery and segregation elected an African American man, a member of one of the nation’s most disenfranchised minorities, to the White House.
Clinton may become the first female president of the United States after 44 men held the office, but few Americans like her.
In 2008, when Democrat Barack Obama won the presidency, America offered a new symbol to the world and to itself, raising its self-esteem.
This time, unlike in 2008, the United States is looking at itself in the mirror… and it does not like what it sees.

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