US presidential elections: Notes from an election | In English | EL PAÍS

It’s doing better than in the 1930s, but much worse than in the 1970s.
It is the democratic idea itself that is in crisis, and not just in the United States.
Anti-immigrant xenophobia could reduce remittances, the main source of foreign exchange in many countries of the region; the majority of them, in fact.
A Sanders nomination could also have activated the conservative electorate, causing the polarization that in the end did not occur.
The Trump effect must also be added to the exhaustion of the super-cycle of commodities.

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