"Long-term international election observers also would be disturbed by the weakening of America’s two major parties, both of which allowed outsiders — Trump and former socialist Bernie Sanders — to play major roles in their nominating processes."

Wait, what? I think "outsiders" are desperately needed to counter the establishment's power in picking candidates. Too bad about Trump but the corporate news media gave him enormous free publicity while refusing to cover the Sanders campaign until he started winning primaries, and then their coverage was mostly negative. 

I've read that 6 major corporations now control 90 percent of the mainstream news media, and they have far too much power over US politics. If you want to find out what is really going on you have to turn to websites like Common Dreams. http://www.commondreams.org/