On Wednesday, what was once unimaginable happened on the streets of Washington DC. After having conclusively lost the presidential elections, Donald Trump — who has, baselessly, claimed the process was riddled with fraud and he was cheated out of a victory — incited a mob to march to the Capitol Hill. Thousands of his angry supporters stormed the Capitol Hill and clashed with police, resulting in casualty and multiple injuries and interrupting a constitutional process to affirm Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
In the whole process, Trump not only disrespected the electoral mandate, he undermined a fundamental tenet of democracy — the peaceful transfer of power and also eroded America’s moral authority globally.
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