Shattered
To say that America was shaken to the core, as our paper’s headline bannered last Friday, is a classic understatement. That disastrous and utterly condemnable siege on Capitol Hill by a group of Trump supporters which left four people dead and scores wounded has all but shattered America’s image as the shining city on a hill, as US President Ronald Reagan described it at the end of the Cold War. The beacon of democracy, the enlightened leader of the “Free World,” as it has come to be known, is on its way to the abyss......»»