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America’s road to January 6

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America’s road to January 6

What do the US, Lebanon, Bosnia and Northern Ireland have in common?

Ed West
Jan 6, 2022
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America’s road to January 6

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Back in the late 1940s American politics had a problem. The issue was serious enough for Congress to authorise a committee looking into divisions between the country’s two parties. The trouble was that there were no divisions – the gap between the Democrats and Republicans had become ‘razor-thin’, and it was feared the lack of difference between them wa…

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