Editorial — Republished from November 11, 2016, in view of the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol
What Donald J. Trump has done to America and its politics is more, much more than tearing up the rules and throwing them away. He has up-ended The GOP and America itself. The rife and deep-rooted nature of racism in that country has been laid bare for all the world to see. Former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke celebrated Trump’s 2016 win: “This is one of the most exciting nights of my life. Make no mistake about it, our people have played a HUGE role in electing Trump!” What happened in The US on Tuesday 8 November 2016 was a backlash — a pay-back blow in retaliation for Barack Obama, a black man, having most convincingly defeated some white persons. This editorial was republished in view of the unprecedented invasion on Wednesday 6 January 2021, in Washington DC, of the United States legislature.