Crisis in American Democracy?
Weekly column written for the Singapore Unbound newsletter. Sign up here . 4 people died after pro-Trump rioters breached the US Capitol yesterday, watched with horror around the world. Since November Trump and his allies have been attacking the presidential election results in the courts and the media relentlessly. After the Capitol was secured against the insurrection, Congress reconvened late last night to certify the electoral college vote count. Joining the rioters in their treasonous act, 6 GOP senators and 121 GOP House members voted to reject Arizona's result. The sound and the fury can easily create a sense of panic that American democracy is in a crisis. However, the sense of crisis is uncalled for, as professor of journalism and political science Peter Beinart explains . Beinart points out that the Republicans are not doing something new. They're merely giving a new form to an old idea that animated the framing of the Constitution: the idea that "...