View: After the deluge of 'Trumpism', it's a long slog ahead for the United States

Synopsis
For the rampaging mob on Capitol Hill, its daring takeover bid was justified by the belief that the elites had stolen the November 3 presidential election, and that they had to fight to keep Trump in power. The idea was to violently ‘take back control’ and demonstrate that Trump was not yet finished.

The stunning invasion of the US Congress in Washington DC by a frenzied mob of thousands of President Donald Trump’s loyalists was the culmination of a populist revolt based on individual charisma and iconoclastic rage. Shocking visuals of vandals running amok inside the legislative chambers of a sacred symbol of American democracy brought home the depth of the politics of resentment against the ‘Establishment’, which Trump has been stoking and

Sreeram Chaulia

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Jan 8, 2021, 11:19 PM IST

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