Open AccessThe 2020 Presidential Election and the Possibility of U.S. Disintegration
Author(s) -
Natalia Travkina,
Vladimir Vasiliev
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
perspektivy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2411-3417
DOI - 10.32726/2411-3417-2021-1-145-165
Subject(s) - secession , politics , democracy , political science , presidential election , political economy , presidential system , state (computer science) , ethnic group , spanish civil war , development economics , law , sociology , economics , algorithm , computer science
During the 2020 presidential campaign in the United States, the problem of secession of a state or a group of states from the U.S.A. was actively discussed. The acute economic, epidemiological, racial-ethnic and environmental crisis have combined to create an unprecedented political crisis, which divided the country into two parts: pro-Republican (red) states and pro-Democratic (blue) states. Most theorists and supporters of secession see it as the logical conclusion of the evident political, economic, cultural and demographic cleavages of the country. A legal, formal partition has been advocated both as a chance to avoid a civil war similar to the one between North and South (1861-1865), and as an essential condition for the advance of American society, a way to break political, social and economic deadlocks in American politics.