Op-Ed: The Trumpian coup desperate, frenzied and sometimes alarming
People across the Atlantic cheered the election results here in America, happy that Trump had lost to Joe Biden. But now, after Trump s desperate efforts to overthrow the election results and our government- Europeans are worried.
Jon Henley, a political reporter for the London-based Guardian, says that Europeans, having been cast aside by Trump as being irrelevant, are now viewing the outgoing American president from a safe distance, and cannot believe what they are seeing.
Europe has been through a lot the past few years, preoccupied with the pandemic, Brexit, economic meltdowns, terror attacks and violence-ridden demonstrations against police brutality in France, among other crises, according to Yahoo Politics.
Trump s desperate gambit to stay in office alarms Europeans, who know about coups Melissa Rossi
BARCELONA Last month, when Sweden’s TV4, the largest broadcast network in Scandinavia, sent political correspondent Ann Tiberg to cover the U.S. election, her producers were so afraid of the possible mayhem awaiting her that they insisted she pack a bulletproof vest, helmet and gas mask. Understandably: The United States had often appeared out of control in previous months, and not just due to COVID-19. The president had urged his followers to vote twice and cryptically told the militia group the Proud Boys to “stand by”; peaceful protests sometimes turned ugly, devolving into looting and the occasional fatal shooting; showdowns between armed groups were widely predicted for Election Day.