Protests from right to left
Posted : 2021-02-18 18:23 By Donald Kirk
The great divide in the U.S. between far right and far left parallels debates around the world between political and ideological extremes, but there s one big difference. The main provocateur of the most violent protest in the U.S. remains at large if still under fire.
It s disturbing to think that Donald Trump has such leverage over the Republican Party that most of its members were against finding him guilty in the Senate impeachment trial that acquitted him of inciting the assault on the Capitol building in Washington on Jan. 6, as the Congress was about to certify the 2020 election of Joe Biden as president.
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