Laugh? We nearly all died – why my US failed state Twitter thread went viral | Patrick Gathara

The final throes of the Trump presidency exposed America as the bad joke - and danger to the world - it has certainly become

The chaotic US election has undoubtedly been the biggest story in the world in the last two weeks. Watching it unfold from over 13,000km away in Kenya, the election itself - the long queues, the delayed and disputed vote count, impugned credibility - was disturbingly familiar. Our own elections follow a near-identical pattern. The media coverage, not so much.

Gone were the condescending tone, the adjective-laden labels and the expectation of violence and malfeasance so often applied to foreign" elections. In its place was an easy familiarity and assumption of competence.