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U.S. politics is never only about the United States. Decisions made in Washington, rulings handed down by federal courts, conflicts inside Congress, shifts within the Republican and Democratic parties, and the political culture surrounding the presidency all reach far beyond American borders.
This dossier looks at the United States as a political system under pressure. It follows institutions, parties, courts, movements, media networks and ideological conflicts, with a particular focus on the question of how a democracy changes when large parts of its political culture no longer share a common reality.
A central theme is the radicalization of the American right. This is not only a domestic party-political development. It has become a political laboratory for strategies that also appear elsewhere: attacks on independent media, delegitimization of courts, distrust of science, religiously charged power politics, culture war, migration panic and the claim that only one political camp represents the “real people”.
At the same time, this dossier does not reduce the United States to one party or one president. The country remains contradictory: authoritarian temptations and democratic resistance, imperial power and local self-organization, religious nationalism and civil rights traditions, extreme inequality and institutional resilience exist side by side.
The guiding question is therefore not simply what is happening in America. The guiding question is what can be learned from U.S. politics before similar patterns appear elsewhere as if they were new.
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