Before shredding the pope on live TV, O’Connor had already infuriated the guardians of American political morality by refusing to perform in venues that opened the evening with the Star-Spangled Banner.

Source: https://theava.com/archives/224267

Benjamin Franklin was one of the originators of the snake as an American political symbol in a famous 1754 political cartoon.

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/the-lid-jeffdunetz/its-flag-day-happy-birthday-old-glory/2023/06/15/

Decades later I became the U.S. correspondent for Il Manifesto, a leftist Italian daily, and attended a real American political convention for the first time.

Source: https://www.salon.com/2023/06/18/was-silvio-berlusconi-the-trump-before-trump-only-in-some-ways--but-theyre-disturbing/

First, I think that it’s really important to recognize that White supremacy—as a political, legal, structural phenomenon—is synonymous with the American experience and is deeply rooted in the American political structure and imagination.

Source: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/columnists/story/2023-05-21/new-conversations-defining-terrorism-need-to-include-white-supremacist-violence

In doing so, she draws our attention to the centrality of disappointment in American political life.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-disciplining-power-of-disappointment

Many agree, arguing that Trump will fight defeat by any means in November’s ballot and that ridding him from the American political scene should require convincing sufficient voters and not just a handful of judges.

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/24010142.trump-card-colorados-ban-former-president-may-seriously-backfire/?ref=rss

Mr. Kennedy, a scion of the storied American political family and an environmental lawyer, has become known for his anti-vaccine advocacy and his promotion of conspiracy theories.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/us/politics/rfk-jr-abortion-ban.html

Not the struggle with Britain but the struggle within the independent United States for freedom and equality against the weight of the Constitution and the American political system.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/04/opinion/declaration-independence-antislavery-movement.html

Personal attacks are the hallmark of American political campaigning.

Source: https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/why-india-must-keep-an-eye-on-us-republicans

That question has roiled the American political arena for a year and a half.

Source: https://patriotpost.us/articles/100624-how-much-have-we-spent-in-ukraine-2023-09-20

The American political left, and by this, I include almost all of national media, academia, career staffers in government, see half the country as rabid cult of Trump personality acolytes, Christian nationalists, J6 crazies who cannot be reasoned with.

Source: https://hotair.com/generalissimo/2023/12/15/its-the-end-of-democracy-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine-ish-n599185

This also cuts both ways across the American political spectrum.

Source: https://710keel.com/holiday-classics-networks-could-cancel-in-texas-and-louisiana/

'This is happening because President Trump is leading in the polls by a large margin against both Democrats and Republicans, and there's never been anything so blatant in American political history.'

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11873883/New-York-prepares-Trumps-indictment-Secret-Service-FBI-conduct-security-sweeps.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Yet, as bad as it has been, the failures of American political economy go well beyond it.

Source: https://time.com/6258540/true-cost-of-the-free-market/