'An Insurgency From inside the Oval Office': Peter Baker

[Sukla Sen]

That's how and why Putin loves him.

Modi takes inspiration - though he really needs no external source, and publicly solidarises.

The striking, and defining, difference between the two is that while in case of the former, the "institutions", by and large, held their ground, in case of the latter - have, either meekly or enthusiastically, rallied behind the Leader.

<<President Donald Trump’s relentless effort to overturn the result of the election that he lost has become the most serious stress test of American democracy in generations, led not by outside revolutionaries intent on bringing down the system but by the very leader charged with defending it.

In the 220 years since a defeated John Adams turned over the White House to his rival, firmly establishing the peaceful transfer of power as a bedrock principle, no sitting president who lost an election has tried to hang onto power by rejecting the Electoral College and subverting the will of the voters — until now. It is a scenario at once utterly unthinkable and yet feared since the beginning of Trump’s tenure.>>

(Ref: 'An Insurgency From inside the Oval Office' by Peter Baker, at <https://news.yahoo.com/insurgency-inside-oval-office-201125937.html?>.)