In a 29-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Edward Luce says: “I’m extremely worried. The American Republic is extremely fragile”. To underline his concern and fear, Edward Luce explained that many of the police forces in the United States have a substantial number of Trump supporters in their ranks. He also said that a lot of people storming the Capitol on Wednesday were off-duty police officers.
Edward Luce said that last week’s storming of the Capitol (6th January) “was an attempted coup”. He said the broad base of American opinion was “horrified” by Wednesday’s developments. However, “a significant minority” shares the views of the mob that the election was stolen and that radical action is needed. He said different realities seem to be at work in America.