Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Republican civil war: what's the party’s future after the US Capitol attack?

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/11/republican-party-future-trump-capitol-mob

With Trump now finally accepting he will leave office, the future leadership of his movement is increasingly up for grabs, with a ragtag band of senators, congressman, Trump family members – and Trump himself – already jostling for the position.

Whether anyone apart from the president is able to successfully ride the tiger of racism, nihilism and grievance politics that carried Trump to near-re-election after four years of American chaos and hundreds of thousands of preventable pandemic deaths is an open question.

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