Had the storming of Capitol Hill overturned the US presidential election, the international liberal democratic order would have struggled to survive without its prime mover.
Americans are set to mark the anniversary of the January 6 storming of Capitol Hill, the culmination of Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the presidential election result last year.
Perhaps less appreciated is how close the rest of the free world also came to disaster, collateral damage in a high-stakes Washington drama.
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David Alexander is chief of policy and advocacy at the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
