The unity that the death of Queen Elizabeth II brought to the United Kingdom last fall offers a provocative contrast to the division characteristic of American democracy as we head into a presidential election next year.
British electoral politics can be as vicious as ours. If ideological animosities within the Conservative Party are less sharp than those among Republicans today, the infighting is hardly less intense. Here the question is whether Donald Trump will again be the GOP nominee. There the question is how long Rishi Sunak will last after two Conservative prime ministers fell in 2022.
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