Trump stands out from his peers
THE presidential election in the US marked by an unusually confrontationist run-up to the polls and an equally bitter post-poll phase of transition made a wrong sort of history when hundreds of supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump converged on Capitol Hill in Washington DC and indulged in violence there on January 6. It was the day a joint session of the Congress was set to finally certify the victorious candidate.
The fact that as many as four protesters lost their lives and an officer of the Capitol police force succumbed to injuries inflicted by the mob speaks of the seriousness of an event that seemed to the world outside as an unprecedented physical attack on the Parliament of the oldest democracy by a politically driven mob of Republican followers pushed to the height of frenzy by their presidential nominee himself.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the
