Irish Examiner View: What awaits next United States leader?

The in-tray awaiting the next US president will be the most toxic and challenging in that great country’s peacetime history: Three interlocked domestic crises — a public health disaster, a ravaged economy, and race clashes — plus, if that was not sufficient, simmering trade and military skirmishes with an increasingly belligerent China, growing trade disputes with the EU bloc, and unresolved contests with Iran and North Korea. Rarely if ever will voters, when choosing the candidate with the confidence-inspiring track record, imagination, creativity, empathy, and honesty that will be required to see the union safely through the next four years, have such a miserable choice of names on their ballot papers.