After attack on the U.S. Capitol, some wonder about the state of democracy around the world
LA TimesSupporters of President Trump climb the west wall of the the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. “It’s extremely disturbing to see the siege against the pinnacle of democracy in the United States,” said Peter Beyer, the German government’s coordinator for trans-Atlantic affairs. “My phone has done nothing but blow up with questions and expressions of horror from Latin American politicians, business leaders and everyday people who can’t believe this happened in the United States,” said Brian Winter, editor in chief of Americas Quarterly magazine. “They fear if we’re having these kinds of problems it will embolden the authoritarians in their midst.” President Trump greets Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro last March at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. “In this country, too, there is a growing number of people who, similar to many Trump supporters, have drifted into parallel worlds full of populism, conspiracy theories and fake news,” noted Germany’s Neue Osnabruecker newspaper after the assault on the U.S. Capitol.
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