The American election of 2024 will be the most consequential in many years, with the prospect of a return to the White House of a person who makes no secret of his contempt for democracy and his desire for revenge on his enemies.
Marion McKeone, doyenne of reporters on US politics for the Sunday Business Post, and Fintan O’Toole, recipient of the 2024 Robert B Silvers award for journalism, discuss the crucial choice facing the US electorate, and the potential consequences of that choice.
This conversation took place on 20 July 2024, two days after the Republican National Convention came to a close and just one day before President Joe Biden announced he was ending his re-election bid.
