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An attack on America

Donald Trump has irreparably damaged US power

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Thousands of angry supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol and clashed with police. Photo: Reuters

Business Standard Editorial Comment New Delhi
Dictators and democrats around the world would have been aware that they were witnessing the irreversible decline of the sole superpower in the shocking live footage of armed mobs rampaging through the US Capitol, the seat of the legislative branch of the world’s most powerful democracy, which left four people dead. More so, when this astonishing attack on the heart of America’s democracy was incited by a sitting president of the United States, the world’s most powerful leader. After a delayed joint session of Congress confirmed Joe Biden as the next president, a formality in presidential transitions for over two