It’s been an intense year politically in the United States, with both the presidential election and Donald Trump’s trial and conviction. 

His sentencing is next month, but before that is the first debate between Trump and Joe Biden, taking place June 27th. 

Nick Bryant, a former US Correspondent and author, has written a book about the hate and decisiveness in the States and the role it plays in its history.  

The book is titled ‘The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself’. 

Bryant told Mike Hosking that the past reflects the current times, and Donald Trump is as much a product of American history as Nixon, JFK, or Ronald Reagan. 

He said that a lot of presidents have had surprisingly authoritarian tendencies, and the American people like this kind of president, the strong man type. 

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