{"id":642413,"date":"2025-12-19T15:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/642413\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:02:27","slug":"stephen-marche-on-the-crisis-in-2025-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/642413\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Marche on the Crisis in 2025 United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!5cyg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15be6cde-cebd-4cd1-8e59-a487deab5249_2000x1756.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/15be6cde-cebd-4cd1-8e59-a487deab5249_2000.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"1278\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/15be6cde-cebd-4cd1-8e59-a487deab5249_2000x1756.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1278,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2489231,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/keenon.substack.com\/i\/182048380?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15be6cde-cebd-4cd1-8e59-a487deab5249_2000x1756.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Whither America? For the Canadian writer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephenmarche.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Marche<\/a>, that\u2019s no longer the question. America in 2025, for Marche, has already <\/strong><strong>withered<\/strong><strong>. The Toronto-based author of <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Next-Civil-War-Dispatches-American\/dp\/1982123214\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Next Civil War<\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Next-Civil-War-Dispatches-American\/dp\/1982123214\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>argues that the future has already arrived in the United States. And it\u2019s a violent, regressive future &#8211; which is only going to get more dismal in 2026. That\u2019s the view from Toronto where Marche is enjoying a front seat on the arrival of the American future. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!VJSd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F39a6c4d4-a61a-408a-93ab-c99370d60076_1259x2000.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/39a6c4d4-a61a-408a-93ab-c99370d60076_1259.png\" width=\"1259\" height=\"2000\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/39a6c4d4-a61a-408a-93ab-c99370d60076_1259x2000.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:2000,&quot;width&quot;:1259,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:223534,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/keenon.substack.com\/i\/182048380?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F39a6c4d4-a61a-408a-93ab-c99370d60076_1259x2000.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!Nc22!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1620133-91db-43a4-98e2-f658a50afee0_1400x640.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/d1620133-91db-43a4-98e2-f658a50afee0_1400.png\" width=\"1400\" height=\"640\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/d1620133-91db-43a4-98e2-f658a50afee0_1400x640.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:640,&quot;width&quot;:1400,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:68106,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/keenon.substack.com\/i\/182048380?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1620133-91db-43a4-98e2-f658a50afee0_1400x640.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whither America? For the Canadian writer Stephen Marche, that\u2019s no longer the question. America in 2025, for Marche,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-642413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115746842618098204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}