The Irish Examiner View: Unsettled and very unsettling

It may, as our establishment political parties play pass the parcel with the options presented by a three-way election result, seem presumptuous to cast a cold eye on how another country uses democracy.

However, if the outcome could be a second term for US president Donald Trump, then passing curiosity becomes justified concern. The conflicting results of the Democratic party’s efforts to agree a candidate deepen those concerns, Joe Biden’s victory in South Carolina’s primary exacerbate them.