High Noon

<h2><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Is the United States disintegrating?</span></h2><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Don Watson offers a report from the United States that catches the madness and theatre of an election like no other.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>This is a historically informed mordant account of Donald Trump Kamala Harris and a country approaching democratic high noon. From Los Angeles to New York from Detroit to Kalamazoo Watson observes America in all its diversity and conflict reality and unreality. Above all he sees the threat posed by Trump and his movement with its blend of menace and glee Great Replacement theory and electoral malpractice. Do Harris and the Democrats have what it takes? Can America mend its divisions? Do enough of its voters even want to?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>An essential essay about a crucial moment of choice.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The fact that half the voters in a country that never stops calling itself the world's greatest democracy are cheering on a man with contempt for the law and unashamed autocratic ambitions may be explained by the man's charisma or by his supporters' derangement. Take your pick. Maybe they all just want to have a good time. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Don Watson <em>High Noon</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>This essay contains correspondence relating to Quarterly Essay 94 </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Highway to Hell</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> from Lesley Hughes Clive Hamilton David Pocock Polly Hemming James Bowen and Lesley Head</span></p>