US voters are increasingly polarised over politics, but Brits are far less stubborn | Torsten Bell

Pundits say rising negative feelings to other parties threatens democracy. Apart from in America, new research tells a different story

The frontrunner to be the next US president is spending his weeks in court, charged with a criminal offence related to an alleged sexual encounter with a porn star. This would normally be suboptimal from a campaign perspective, but to date is having no effect on support for Donald Trump.

Moreover, whether you think the US economy is going gangbusters or collapsing depends not on whether wages and employment are rising but on whether you side with Democrats or Republicans, with the latter currently reporting that economic conditions are worse than in the depths of Covid.