United States: "The climate of suspicion with regard to the poll is the sign of a sick democracy"

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With the approach of the presidential election, the political camps multiply the gatherings and the tension is accentuated.

REUTERS / Eduardo Munoz

By: Mikaël Ponge

8 min

Tensions are mounting in the United States as the presidential election draws closer.

Since last weekend, an impressive amount of stores in the downtown areas of major American cities, including New York and Washington, have been barricaded, for fear of demonstrations that would degenerate on polling day or following.

Lighting from Jean-Christian Vinel, lecturer at the University of Paris, specialist in American history.

He edited the collective work Conservatismes en Mouvement (EHESS editions).

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