As the Democrats take back the White House, what does the 2020 presidential election say about the future of US politics?
Despite Joe Biden’s win, tens of millions of Americans chose Donald Trump for a second term. How the Republican party relates to this bloc of voters - along with the ideology Trump represents - is now central to its strategic direction.
For the Democrats, an old guard embodied by Joe Biden and a new generation of progressives are in a contest for influence over the party’s vision.
In The End of a Presidency: Trump’s Loss in a Divided America, Fault Lines explores how Trump changed the presidency, and where the two parties will go next.
It’s been just over a year since Donald Trump shocked the world and won the US presidency. In that time, he’s managed to upend nearly every political convention, throwing both Washington and the country into chaos nearly every day. He’s also left both major political parties in tatters, with their identity blown to pieces. In their trade for power, the Republicans lost control of their party to Trump and the far-right of their base of voters. And the Democrats have yet to fully come to terms with how and why Hillary Clinton lost. In this episode of Fault Lines, we examine the loss of identity of both the GOP and Democrats and look at what their strategies for rebuilding mean for the country’s future.
The US' hurricane season was one of the most active in history, destroying lives and leaving victims homeless.
In August 2017, one trillion gallons of water fell on the Houston area over a four-day period - by far the most rainfall in US history. More than 70 people died, and thousands of people lost their homes.
Hurricane Harvey hit everyone in the area. But now that the water has receded, will there be an equal recovery?
A month after Harvey hit - after the media moved on to new stories - Fault Lines travelled to Houston, Texas - which is one of the most diverse but segregated cities in the US - to see if the storm will deepen the city's social and economic divide.
In the first week after Donald Trump won the US presidential election, the United States saw a sharp rise in hate crimes and people being attacked because of their race, ethnicity or religion. Many analysts attribute it to the divisive rhetoric Trump himself used during the campaign that seized upon racial tensions in the country. These tensions were simmering under the surface but are now out in the open.
The most recent and high-profile manifestation of this was in August in Charlottesville, Virginia when a white supremacist drove his car through a crowd of anti-racist demonstrators, killing a young woman and injured dozens of others during a rally by various far-right groups. Fault Lines examines how hate is playing out across Trump’s America and the toll it is taking on communities across the country.
