It has been a cold morning. Looking out over the garden, in the quiet of a Devon lockdown, it is sometimes hard to reconcile what happens (or doesn’t) here and what is happening elsewhere in the world, whether it is the pandemic threatening to overwhelm the NHS or Trump inciting the mob to threaten the foundations of US democracy.
The last chapter of what Trump has laughingly called “the greatest first term in presidential history” is more like a US Götterdämmerung than anything else. If I was worried about British soft power draining away (see my post A New Year), that is nothing to what is happening to the reputation of the US.
Behind the FT’s paywall but still worth reading Western democracies stunned by images of unrest in Washington.
Trump has always been and remains Putin’s useful idiot. The ‘bigly’ question left unanswered, even now, is why?
Enough said: George Wilkinson's blog 