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Trump’s Departure: Gone but Sadly, Not Likely to Be Soon Forgotten

The armed criminal supporters--the “pied pipers of Trumpism"-- that stormed the Capitol in what can only be considered an attempted coup d’état, have not only changed the way that the long-established Inauguration ceremony can take place today, they have undermined the security of America and democracy tomorrow and all the days to follow. The nation is divided and nothing makes this clearer than the number of votes that Biden and Trump each received. With 85 to 74 million, the nation is almost equally divided in half. Newly sworn in President Joe Biden talks of universal love, unity and empathy, but I think that the ship of brotherly love in America sailed a while ago.

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The Global Monitor of Covid-19’s Impact on Democracy and Human Rights

At the beginning of the pandemic, some policy analysts assumed that democracies would have performed better than autocracies in coping with the crisis. It has soon become apparent that state capacities and the quality of leadership played a more important role than the type of political regime. In fact, democracy aspects do not seem to affect fatality rates significantly. International IDEA analyzed whether basic welfare standards, civil society participation and personal integrity rights, for example, are important factors for limiting mortality during the first stages of the pandemic. On 7 July International IDEA will launch a Global Monitor of COVID-19’s Impact on Democracy and Human Rights co-funded by the European Union.

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