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Another ‘mostly peaceful’ day in the USA
As Talleyrand famously said after Napoleon’s international kidnap and subsequent execution of the royalist Duc d’Enghein, “it was worse than a crime, it was a mistake.”
The unknown number (from a few dozen to a few hundred) pro-Trump protesters who tussled with the police, stormed the Capitol building and caused property damage in the chambers and offices achieved nothing but giving a monumental free kick to the left. It was illegal, it was wrong, it was pointless, it was counter-productive.
If all the legitimate legal and constitutional processes were not able to “stop the steal” of the presidential election, a horde of masked clowns rampaging through the seat of the legislative branch was not going to change the…
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