The United States Political System is on the Verge of Collapsing

For the next two years, a Republican Congress facing a Democratic White House would postpone economic policy changes until 2025.

While working-class Americans face the sharpest real-income fall since the Carter Administration's final months, America's political parties are in turmoil, with internal differences almost as acute as the issues that have separated "red" and "blue" America.

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