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Editorial: GOP infighting symptomatic of a toxic hangover from Trump years

The former US president left a compromised, discredited and factionalised Republican Party in his wake

These days, the Republican party offers US voters the kinds of extremist partisans, racists, election deniers, white nationalists and religious fundamentalists who stormed the Capitol in 2021, or else politicians with no particular principles at all. Picture: Getty

As the second anniversary of the mob assault on Capitol Hill passed last Friday, there were signs that the country is recovering from the trauma of the most violent attack on American democracy since the civil war.

Before Christmas, a committee of the House of Representatives investigating the assault on January 6, 2021, published a detailed and credible report on the event, and on what and who incited and wallowed in it: former president Donald ...