In September last year, US President Joe Biden spoke to Americans from the “sacred ground” of Independence Hall in Philadelphia – the birthplace of the Constitution of the United States. In that landmark speech, Biden warned Americans, and indeed the world, that:
Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.
Less than a year later, American democracy is being subjected to yet another stress test – one to add to an already exhaustingly long list.
