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It was a historic day in the United States that had many people glued to their televisions and computers in horror and disbelief.
The US Capitol was breached for the first time in more than 200 years, when a mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed past police to disrupt the official certification of the 2020 presidential election results.
Disrupt, they did. As David Smith writes, some of the protesters seemed to know they wouldn’t actually be able to seize power, but delighted in the chaos they were able to cause anyway.
Away from the violence in Washington, the Democrats were declared the winners of both Senate seats in Georgia yesterday, giving the party control of both chambers of Congress, in addition to the presidency.
As Jared Mondschein writes, this will no doubt make the now officially confirmed next US president Joe Biden’s job easier, but we shouldn’t expect a progressive revolution.
After the events of yesterday, we shouldn’t expect normalcy to return to America so quickly either. As Mondschein notes, Biden has already acknowledged doing so would not address the root causes of the mayhem that occurred on Capitol Hill.
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Justin Bergman
Deputy Editor: Politics + Society
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David Smith, University of Sydney
Trump has claimed for weeks the election is stolen. Having fired up his supporters in this way, it became much harder to control mob behaviour.
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Mary-Louise McLaws, UNSW
Australia's expedited plan to start dishing out COVID jabs in mid-late February will call for NASA-like logistical organisation. And ideally, no more clusters of infections to distract frontline workers.
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Jared Mondschein, University of Sydney
In such a narrowly divided chamber, the onus will be on the Biden administration not lose a single Democrat. This could limit the scope of his ambitious agenda.
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Jordan McSwiney, University of Sydney
Far-right Trump supporters are afraid American democracy has been overturned by their left-leaning 'opponents', even as they themselves actively undermine liberal democratic values and institutions.
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Timothy Graham, Queensland University of Technology
Years ago it may have been inconceivable to think events such as today's riots could occur. But the writing was on the wall — and we missed our chance to fix things.
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Don King
Sophia Nimphius, Edith Cowan University
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Htwe Htwe Thein, Curtin University
Foreign companies are failing to heed the UN call to stop doing business with Myanmar's blood-stained military elite.
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Daniel D'Hotman, University of Oxford; Steven Hamilton, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Politics + Society
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Clayton Besaw, University of Central Florida; Matthew Frank, University of Denver
Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, disrupting Congress's certification of Joe Biden as president-elect. Coup experts explain this violent insurrection wasn't technically a coup.
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Paul Bruski, Iowa State University
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