Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Summary: American democracy has been deeply damaged by a presidentâs refusal to concede power and his supportersâ use of violence and intimidation to pressure political officialsâproblems fueled by polarization and an antidemocratic faction of the Republican Party. Hereâs where the fault lines come fromâand how to begin patching them.
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A mob, egged on by a presidential speech earlier in the day, breached the U.S. Capitol, spun in the president of the Senate’s chair, and sent members of Congress running for safety, some in gas masks. Its goal was to stop a peaceful transition of power by upending the certification of election results. These acts were hardly spontaneous, but rather emerged from a series of rallies of white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, militias, and Trump supporters who believe that the election was stolen.