Premium from the FT- Trump is putting American democracy on trial
Honest Abe must be turning in his grave. It's not hard to imagine how America's greatest statesman, Abraham Lincoln, would judge his disruptive successor Donald Trump. Not favourably, I'd wager.
Then again, Abe would be equally bemused at how his Republican Party has transformed from champion of the downtrodden to apparent protector of privilege. To end slavery, Lincoln's Republicans went to war against their brethren. Hard to believe it nowadays, but the Democratic Party was on the other side of the slavery argument.
I got thinking about how political parties change when reflecting on my interview with ANC Veteran's League president Dr Snuki Zikalala. Without letting too much out of the bag, if the former SABC bossman is any yardstick, to say the ANC is transforming is an understatement.
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