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Is the US on the Path to Becoming a Failed State?

Mackinnon, Jesse
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/is-the-us-on-the-path-to-becoming-a-failed-state.html

Publisher:  Naked Capitalism
Date Written:  10/06/2025
Year Published:  2025  
Resource Type:  Article

The United States has entered a phase that resembles the early stages of state failure. What once seemed impossible in a country with vast resources and robust democratic traditions now appears increasingly plausible.

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State failure is not typically marked by a single event. It is a process that begins with the corrosion of political legitimacy and ends in the disintegration of central authority. In the United States, this erosion of legitimacy can be seen in the deliberate politicization of the civil service and the Justice Department, the relentless attacks on the press and civil society, and the hollowing out of regulatory agencies through mass firings and loyalty tests.
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The United States has survived grave challenges before, but its survival has always depended on a functioning state that could reconcile competing interests and adapt to new circumstances. Today, that state is being systematically dismantled.

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