President Biden’s burden of leading by example

THERE is a vast chasm between US President Joe Biden’s ideal world and values as captured in his foreign policy and the prevailing reality in the country he governs. America’s democracy came under threat just two weeks before his inauguration on January 20 when a mob of Trump supporters attacked the Capitol Hill, the very seat of American democracy, in an attempt to block the Congressional certification of the 2020 election results.

This followed weeks of former president Donald Trump’s denial of the election results and his refusal to concede, citing electoral irregularities. He and his