“Around the world, the
shock of Wednesday’s assault on Capitol Hill brought into sharp focus a question that has been smoldering for four years among America’s allies and adversaries. ‘And again the doubt,’ wrote Emma Riverola in
El Periódico de Catalunya, a Barcelona, Spain, daily, in painfully graphic terms. ‘Is this just a final burst of pus? Or has the infection spread, now threatening to cause a sepsis of the entire system?’ Was Donald Trump an aberration or the ominous onset of decline in the world’s premier democracy? The question echoed in democracies beset in recent years by populist movements nurtured by the same blend of far-right nationalism and blue-collar grievances as President Trump’s following. ... From the other end of the geopolitical spectrum, entrenched authoritarian regimes exulted in the disarray in a superpower accustomed to hectoring and sanctioning them over their suppression of democratic and human rights. ...”
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