For the first time in the history of the United States, a President has incited insurrection by his neo-Nazy brigade of right wing-supporters, opposing the peaceful transfer of power. It is tantamount to encouraging hostility when the world stood. Horrified as a witness to the rioters storming the U.S Capitol.
Shelley Walia, The Hindu
The insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol as “would-be saboteurs of a 244-year-old democracy.” But true democracy in America is only 56 years old, dating to 1965, the year the Voting Rights Act guaranteed suffrage—at least on paper—to all American citizens, regardless of race. Four decades later, a multiracial coalition elected a Black president. As in the past, the rise of Black men to political power made some white Americans question the wisdom of democracy
from The Washington Post.
With tens of millions of votes still uncounted, Donald Trump had appeared on a carefully prepared stage bedecked with US flags and demanded that the counting be stopped and that he be declared the winner. The election was in the past tense: “Frankly we did win this election.”
This was never a dark conspiracy. It was an undisguised insurrection. On September 23rd, asked whether he would “commit here today for a peaceful transferral of power after the November election”, Trump replied, “Get rid of the [mail-in] ballots and you’ll have a very peaceful – there won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation.” Like every other autocrat, Trump understood the sole purpose of an election as the endorsement of his rule. Any other possibility could not be entertained.
Fintan O tool, The Irish times
Mr.Trump will be remembered as a narcissist and a pathological liar who managed to rise up to the U.S presidency and retain support despite his naked recourse to crony capitalism and venality. He did so by playing into the fears and discontent of the white working class and small business sections with globalization and affirmative actions.
Sreenivasan Ramani
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