Biden should double down on democracy promotion
Autocrats and non-state terrorists will revel in America’s disarray in the aftermath of last week’s ugly insurrection.
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Autocrats and non-state terrorists will revel in America’s disarray in the aftermath of last week’s ugly insurrection.
Daniel Twining Autocrats around the world reveled in the mayhem that broke out in the U.S. Capitol on January 6: an incompetently governed United States, at odds with itself, would surely be at pains to assert its leadership of a free and open international order. On closer inspection, however, authoritarians have little to celebrate. The events in the United States demonstrated that democracies are self-correcting and resilient because they vest power in institutions, not in rulers. Rather than yield to the political violence of a fringe minority, representative institutions upheld the wi...