Attempted assassination of Donald Trump shows the deep rot in American democracy

The United States of America is witnessing a moment of deep reckoning. The assassination attempt by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Pennsylvania of the presumptive Republican Presidential candidate, Donald Trump, has revealed to the world a stench-filled and septicaemic American political system, and the gangrene eating away into the body politic of American democracy. The real road to making America great again, at this moment of truth-telling, will only be navigated if the silent majority of its people act with unprecedented alacrity to reclaim the American dream and work together…