Anyone who genuinely cares about the fate of the 245-year American experiment in revolutionary democracy might be forgiven for having wishfully imagined last Wednesday that the excitement in Washington, D.C. was really just about an extraordinary lapse in security planning, and a howling mob of slack-jawed yokels had managed to rampage through the Capitol Building after having taken Donald Trump’s deranged rhetoric more seriously than the outgoing president had intended. Read More
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Glavin: American democracy is reeling, and it's not just because of Trump
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