LETTER: The US may become a second-class economy
For a supposedly new country, the US has some very old-fashioned ideas and even stranger election rituals
14 January 2021 - 16:38
A short while from now, when Donald Trump has gone back to his job as an innkeeper and Joe Biden is US president, we might view the current war in Washington as a storm in a tea cup.
The public punch-up was essentially due to a failure of policing. Had the Capitol cops not been asleep at the wheel it would have passed off as a spirited protest by Trump’s brainwashed supporters. Now it’s a constitutional crisis with everyone breathing fire and brimstone. ..
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