Assault on the Capitol in Washington: the USA at the heart of the world-wide decomposition of capitalism
“This is how election results are disputed in a banana republic”. This declaration followed the January 5 invasion of the Capitol by several hundred Donald Trump partisans, who had come to interrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory. You might think that such a severe judgement of the political situation in the US might come from someone who is viscerally hostile to America, or from an American “leftist”. Not at all: this was from ex-president George W Bush, a member of the same party as Trump. This tells us a lot about the gravity of what happened in Washington that day.