Checks and Balance: American carnage

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🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

President Trump stood on the Capitol steps at his inauguration and promised to stop “this American carnage.” Four years later a violent mob stormed the Capitol building in an attempt to overturn his election defeat. Will this jarring spectacle make breaking with Mr Trump easier for Republicans?

We hear from historian Rick Perlstein, The Economist’s Washington bureau chief James Astill and Washington correspondent Idrees Kahloon.

John Prideaux, our US editor, hosts with New York bureau chief Charlotte Howard, and Jon Fasman, US digital editor.

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0:00.0	There are some things that can truly ruin your wedding.
0:03.0	For example, a stain on your wedding dress.
0:06.0	Or the appearance of your ex.
0:09.0	Give him my teacher, ex?
0:10.0	You forgot to button his shirt all the way up.
0:12.0	Or a bunch of pirates.
0:14.0	You take everybody hostage.
0:16.0	Here's the plan.
0:17.0	The new action romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez.
0:20.0	Sorry, I'm giving me the grenades, sir.
0:21.0	And Josh Dumel.
0:22.0	Oh, you got it!
0:23.0	Shotgun wedding.
0:24.0	Watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:26.0	Included with Prime.
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1:25.2	But he's more famous as the victim of, until this week, the most notorious act of violence perpetrated in the Senate.
1:32.2	In 1856, the Democrat Preston Brooks nearly beat Sumner to death for his abolitionist views.
1:38.2	Blows from Preston's gold-headed walking stick left him blinded and unconscious.
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