it is in the U.S. that the disharmony between politics and economic and social development is at its most extreme and consequential.36 Twenty-first-century America is a country in which political power is shared between two parties, one of which, the Republican Party, has been for decades committed to blocking the construction of a state apparatus befitting of an advanced society and dismantling it where it does exist. Furthermore, as 2008 demonstrated and 2020 confirmed, in moments of national crisis, the GOP is no longer a party with a vision of government either in the long or even the
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