This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States

and around the world. I'm Farid Zikar here, coming to you live from New York.

Today on the show, in Selection in America, as a Trump-supported mob reaches the US Capitol.

Is this a new low for the world's oldest constitutional republic?

We're going to the Capitol. Will America be able to remove this stain from its global reputation?

We'll devote the whole art of talking about the issues swirling around the storming of the

Capitol. The future of Donald Trump. Our incredible journey is only just beginning.

The future of the Republican Party. And the future of the Republic itself.

First, with former Secretary of State Colin Powell, then colonists Ezra Klein and Ann Appelbaum.

And finally, the great historian Eric Phononon.

But first, here's my take. The bad news about America is all around us.

But there is good news hidden within it, or at least the chance for a renewal of America's promise.

I don't want to sugarcoat the reality. We have lived through the most serious threat to the

Republic in 150 years. And it's not over yet. For all those who doubted that Donald Trump is a

danger to American democracy, words I used in 2016, this week finally provided the smoking gun.

In fact, the evidence was long in plain view. The Wall Street Journal's editorial page,

the Guardian of American Conservatism, consistently ridiculed worries about Trump's

autocratic tendencies. A year into his presidency, it opined that his tenure must be terribly

disappointing to the progressive elites who a year ago predicted an authoritarian America,

because Mr. Trump posed a unique threat to democratic norms. It claimed that all Trump could

really be accused of was excessive rhetorical attacks on the media. Senior Republicans refuse

to even make such tepid objections. Critics like Lindsey Graham quickly morphed into sycophants

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