He told his followers to go to the Capitol in order to prevent Vice President Mike Pence and the Senate from certifying the popular victory of Joe Biden to be the next president of the United States. Like an experienced tyrant, Trump invited his followers from all over America to Washington. Januwas a dark day during which Trump launched an unsuccessful coup. However, the election of Donald Trump, a corrupt businessman, to the presidency in November 2016 brought to a head decades-long boiling undemocratic forces in America. The architecture and paintings of the large Capitol building do in fact mirror the polis of Athens. Here was America’s center of political life designed and built with classical Greece in mind. I used to visit the Capitol, primarily for pleasure. I worked on Capitol Hill for a couple of years – in the 1970s. Photograph Source: Tyler Merbler – CC BY 2.0
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