<div>'How do we become a serious people again?' Dave Eggers, Annie Proulx and more on the 2020 election</div>

How is America faring after four years of Donald Trump? Which way will voters turn? US authors including Richard Powers, Ocean Vuong and Kiley Reid share their hopes and fearsWe had fed the heart on fantasies,The heart’s grown brutal from the fare,More substance in our enmitiesThan in our love …Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice,Be not dishearten’d – Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet;Those who love each other shall become invincible.Trump is a catalyst in this cauldron of miseries. Take him out of the mix and we have a chanceBy the end of 2020, 400,000 Americans will have died to prove that simple government competence mattersBiden proclaims that healthcare is a human right while opposing any plan that would realise that rightI wouldn’t be surprised if it is a Trump election againThe elections will not end our mourning, no matter who wins – we have lost too muchI wonder how many Republicans have had disturbing thoughts about what their grandchildren will make of them in retrospect Continue reading...