It should be a stark reminder that a mere restoration of the deeply insufficient status quo ante will not be enough. If the devastations wrought by Trumpism in power are followed yet again by a failure to hold anyone to account and pretensions of returning to “normalcy,” democracy cannot survive.
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In an even remotely healthy political system and culture - and everywhere else in the democratic world - January 6 would have been a dealbreaker: The end of Trump as a major political figure. -
In an even remotely healthy political system and culture - and everywhere else in the democratic world - January 6 would have been a dealbreaker: The end of Trump as a major political figure.In the United States, he returned to the presidency just four years later.
A catastrophic, system-wide failure to hold him or the party that had elevated him to power in the first place to account that leaves Americas political elites and elite institutions widely and rightfully discredited.
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In an even remotely healthy political system and culture - and everywhere else in the democratic world - January 6 would have been a dealbreaker: The end of Trump as a major political figure.In an even remotely healthy political system and culture - and everywhere else in the democratic world - January 6 would have been a dealbreaker: The end of Trump as a major political figure. He would have been convicted, shunned, banished - everyone associated with him ostracized from public life.
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