Is America's legacy in doubt? The world's most powerful nation happens has been a stable democracy for most of the better part of two centuries. As the planet awakens to images of the first storming of the US Capitol since the British did it in the War of 1812, there are those will focus on security lapses: how did crowd control get so easily overwhelmed? There are those who will fixate on an outgoing US president who earlier in the day egged on a mob.

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