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American Democracy in the Dangerous Waters of Revolutionary Times

2021-01-21T17:52:27.931Z


FIGAROVOX / ANALYSIS - After four years of Trump's presidency, America is rocking over a precipice. Politics has become a war of factions. And entire segments of the social body seem tempted by some form of mental secession. A volcanic situation that leaves to the new ...


America has entered the dangerous and uncertain waters of a revolutionary time.

This process has actually been going on for years, but it is only now, faced with facts too glaring to be underestimated, that we are beginning to take full measure of it.

On January 6, a raging crowd, heated to white heat by President Trump convinced he had been robbed of the presidential election, launched like a mad bull to assault Congress, the holy of holies of American democracy, to force doors and windows.

Did this coup begin by chance, as is often the case in insurgencies, when suddenly everything flares up for a detail, as suggested in a recent article by our Washington correspondent Adrien Jaulmes?

Or had troublemakers prepared their maneuver and planned to start the riot?

Did they have complicity with certain police officers, who seemed to fraternize with the crowd

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Source: lefigaro

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