{"id":8910,"date":"2021-01-15T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3117791\/trumps-rise-reflects-all-ails-democratic-system-can-biden-fix-it"},"modified":"2021-01-15T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T14:00:08","slug":"trumps-rise-reflects-all-that-ails-the-democratic-system-can-biden-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/trumps-rise-reflects-all-that-ails-the-democratic-system-can-biden-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s rise reflects all that ails the democratic system. Can Biden fix it?"},"content":{"rendered":"A week is a long time in politics. On Wednesday last week, armed supporters of Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol, the temple of American democracy. On Wednesday this week, he became the first American president to be impeached twice.\r\rNext Wednesday, Joe Biden will be anointed president, protected by 20,000 National Guard members, not against foreign enemies, but domestic threats. This was supposed to happen only in Hollywood films.\r\rConsider these bizarre facts: the pandemic is claiming more\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3117791\/trumps-rise-reflects-all-ails-democratic-system-can-biden-fix-it\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week is a long time in politics. On Wednesday last week, armed supporters of Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol, the temple of American democracy. On Wednesday this week, he became the first American president to be impeached twice.<\/p>\n<p>Next Wednesday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8947,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910\/revisions\/8947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}