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Tyrants gaze with glee at what Trump has done to American democracy
Trump’s “incitement of the violent assault on the US Capitol was the savage consummation of the four years of vandalism he has unleashed on America’s body politic” (Andrew Rawnsley, 2021).
Shaken Nation Needs to Reinvent Democracy
“It has been the erosion of these mediating institutions in modern democracies that has led to the all-out partisanship and stark polarization that today puts republics at risk just as the founders rightly worried” (Nathan Gardels, 2021).
The Myth of American Innocence
“This willful act of forgetting — compounded by the myth of American innocence — has shown itself to be dangerous...it allowed many Americans to view the president’s insistence that he had won an election in which he was actually trounced, and his simultaneous embrace of right-wing extremism, as political theater” (Brent Staples, 2021).
How Trumpism May Endure
“One hundred and fifty years after the emergence of the Confederate Lost Cause ideology, a new Lost Cause invaded the U.S. Capitol with the incitement of the president of the United States. Waving American, Confederate, Gadsden and, especially, Trump flags, Donald Trump’s loyalists desecrated the greatest symbolic edifice of America” (David W. Blight, 2021).
How to Ensure This Never Happens Again
“With even the soon-to-be Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, now conceding that elections are not supposed to look like this, the months ahead may present a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fix what’s wrong with American democracy — or risk losing it altogether” (Gage and Bazelon, 2021).
Trump’s legacy—the shame and the opportunity
“The election myth that Mr Trump has spun may thus have broken the feedback loop needed for the party to change. Ditching a failed leader and broken strategy is one thing. Abandoning someone whom you and most of your friends think is the rightful president, and whose power was taken away in a gigantic fraud by your political enemies, is something else entirely” (The Economist, 2021).
America Can’t Promote Democracy Abroad. It Can’t Even Protect It at Home.
The January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol is “a sign of how broken U.S. foreign-policy debates are that the primary reaction from many commentators was to worry about America’s moral authority and global leadership” (Emma Ashford, 2021).
It Happened in America
“It was always easy...to dismiss the worst-case scenarios as the product of alarmist academics, overly imaginative Trump haters, biased liberal commentators, and disgruntled former officials.” Could “concerning outcomes” “really happen in a country like the United States, with its deep democratic roots and established institutional checks? To many, that seemed unthinkable” (Pippa Norris, 2021).
It Wasn’t Strictly a Coup Attempt. But It’s Not Over, Either.
“Experts say recent actions by President Trump and his loyalists are harder to stop than a coup — citing anti-democratic slides in Turkey and Venezuela as closer examples” (Amanda Taub, 2021).
Whose Post-Pandemic Century?
“After almost a year of living under the cloud of the pandemic, it is clear that even poor Asian countries managed COVID-19 far better than the United States and Europe. But whether 2020 thus marked the beginning of a new "Asian Century" still remains to be seen” (Bill Emmott, 2020)
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