“The American political system is collapsing”

Lhe closure of a cracked bridge in a small town sparks clashes, the President of the United States is assassinated by a radicalized youngster, a hurricane devastates New York… These are the sparks that, according to Stephen Marche, Canadian journalist and essayist based in the United States , could trigger the next civil war as the country is divided, armed, unequal. He also envisages the separation of the States, no longer united at all, amicably. His book The Next Civil War (The Next Civil War “) begins with these sentences: “The United States is coming to an end. The question is how. »

Without an in-depth reform of certain institutions that he considers obsolete, for example the electoral college, he maintains, like many experts published this year, that the explosion…