U.S. Democracy Hangs on Two Men’s Egos

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 22: People watch the final U.S. presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden outside Cowell Theater on October 22, 2020 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)

U.S. Democracy Hangs on Two Men’s Egos

Trump and Biden each believes that he alone can fix it. One will wreck it; the other could.

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