Before the coronavirus pandemic, the US election looked to be the defining event of 2020.
Would Donald Trump win a second term, and scale up his xenophobia and religious bigotry in a similar fashion to how Modi has done since reelection in India? Would former Vice-President Joe Biden overcome poor performances on the debate stage to mount a credible challenge for the White House? Would Bernie Sanders, riding on a wave of electrified first-time voters, become the first self-proclaimed democratic socialist to enter the Oval Office?
These were the questions whose answers would set the tone of a new decade; and while rightly sidelined by the catastrophe currently sweeping to all corners of the globe – now more than ever, politics must not be forgotten.
