The events on Capitol Hill last week have been met with outrage both because they happened and because US President Donald Trump provoked them.
There has been hype – much from those who have sustained Trump these past four years – about an invasion of the “hallowed halls”, an attack on “democracy itself”, sedition, insurrection and treason.
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John McCarthy is a former ambassador to Vietnam, the United States, Indonesia and Japan, a high commissioner to India, and a senior adviser to Asialink.
