Lionel Shriver Lionel Shriver

Hell hath no fury like the left scorned

Rioting and protests in Atlanta, sparked by the death of George Floyd, 29 May 2020 (Getty Images) 
issue 06 January 2024

Over a leg of lamb, I joined five other expat Americans for Christmas. Our topic du jour was which faction in our homeland we were most afraid of. Revisiting that boisterous conversation appeals, because in this re-enactment, I’m the only one who gets to talk.

With forbidding rapidity, one armchair assertion has gone from audacious augury to trite truism: that whichever party wins the presidency, a substantial proportion of the losers will not accept the result as legitimate.

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