The democratic banner, carried by America, is withered

Like revolution, does democracy end up devouring its own children?

There were only a few thousand on Capitol Hill and the strong American institutions held on.

But the strength of the symbol, the attack on the temple of American democracy, Congress, is worth an entire army.

It is as if the planet had rotated on itself, suddenly exchanging the roles traditionally assigned to the North and the South.

In a few hours, the policeman of the world, one of the cradles of democracy, the winner of the cold war and communism, the first world power, so long a source of example, inspiration and envy for the planet , has proven that it can also, when led by an irrational, narcissistic and unethical president, use the methods of authoritarian governments, even failed states.

The autocrats and the contemptors of democracy are rubbing their hands, they who constantly denounce the

"arrogance"

of America, that

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