Her Russ Acad Sci. 2021;91(4):403-407. doi: 10.1134/S1019331621040031. Epub 2021 Sep 14.

Facets of the American Split.

Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences

V N Garbuzov

PMID: 34539146 PMCID: PMC8438276 DOI: 10.1134/S1019331621040031

Abstract

American society has always been characterized by heterogeneity and lack of internal unity. This was determined by the very process of the emergence, formation, and evolution of the American nation, in which all ethnic groups and races existing on the globe are represented. Dividing lines and associated group, ethnic, racial, social, and political conflicts, potentially able to cause internal division, have accompanied Americans throughout their history. However, being a classical society of group interests, American society has developed a mechanism for reconciling and regulating such contradictions. Democracy has become such a mechanism, aimed at finding an acceptable compromise between interested groups. From time to time, the lines of potential split made themselves felt. The modern era in this regard is no exception for the United States. Over the past three decades, a large-scale internal political crisis has been developing in that country. It is indicated by the deep polarization of society, accompanied by a sharp interparty split and intraparty riots. The Democratic and Republican parties, around which the political space in the United States was organized for decades, have found themselves in a crisis, which spreads to both the electorate and the party elite.

© Pleiades Publishing, Ltd. 2021, ISSN 1019-3316, Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2021, Vol. 91, No. 4, pp. 403–407. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2021.Russian Text © The Author(s), 2021, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2021, Vol. 91, No. 7, pp. 627–632.

Keywords: Democrats; Republicans; Trump; United States; confrontation axes; crisis; dual containment policy; group interests; political polarization; sanctions

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