Stop Comparing the Capitol Riot to Banana Republics. It's Lazy—and Wrong.
Stop Comparing the Capitol Riot to Banana Republics. It’s Lazy—and Wrong. Commentators have relied on fallacious allusions to the developing world to explain a problem unique to the United States. Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images The Trump-incited insurrection at the Capitol on Wednesday was a fitting coda to a presidency that came into this world likening Mexicans to “criminals and rapists” and that has, along the way, accepted and enabled white supremacists to a degree unprecedented in recent history. The president’s legacy is stained by the neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, the El P...
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