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A KEY TAKEAWAY FROM THE MESSY AMERICAN ELECTIONS is that throughout the long drawn-out saga, at no point did Americans go abroad for democratic standards and best practices, never mind that smaller Nations like Tanzania had cleaner, fast-concluding polls. In true American
...haughtiness, America turned to its OWN INSTITUTIONS for VALIDATION of its processes and outcomes! Trump, so the lore went, was wrong and aberrational because he flew in the face of verdicts of American institutions!!!! The reference was inward, reminding the whole world it is
...not OBSERVER MISSIONS - those from America included - who validate democratic processes. Rather, it is NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS which do, mindless of what the rest of the world or poor losers say. BIG BIG lesson for Zimbabwe as we go to 2023. And this is over and above lessons
...from Malawi and Tanzania where African Nations preside over their democratic processes without an iota of foreign presence or validation. We should not flinch from taking sovereign decisions come 2023. Including not forgetting how American generals emulated what happened here
...when Trump threatened the whole edifice of American democracy and constitutionalism. As Achebe said, if a child (America) washes his hands, he can eat with elders (Zimbabwe)!!!!!
