But I always smugly thought I lived in a functioning American democracy until Wednesday's scene of Donald Trump-inspired violent chaos at the United States Capitol. Riled up by Trump, they despoiled a sacred day of peaceful transition, turning a democratic formality into a seething mob cauldron. Straight talk:Trump is an enemy of democracy and his Capitol enablers are co-conspiratorsTrump and his supporters have casually thrown around the word "treason" for years. It was looming in the United States, but theoretical until Trump whipped up some of his supporters to disrupt American democracy at its heart. But I never thought the enemy would be some of us, inspired by an American president.

Source: Libya Today January 08, 2021 12:01 UTC