America’s heavily armed far-right extremists fit the mold of those who’ve started insurrections in other countries

Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they try to storm the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on Jan. 6, 2021. When I was writing my first book, a history of the White House and the presidency, I came across a quote from John Adams. “Remember,” he wrote in December 1814, “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.”

In the 207 years since, we came close […]

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By Donato