BEHIND THE LINES
Capitol inquiry races against clock Hugo Lowell, page 12→
‘Trump menace is darker than ever’ Jonathan Freedland, page 13→
Joe Biden had spent a year hoping the United States could go back to normal. But last Thursday, the first anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol, the president finally recognised the full scale of the threat to American democracy. “At this moment, we must decide,” Biden said in Statuary Hall, where rioters had swarmed a year earlier. “What kind of nation are we going to be? Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm?”
It is a question that many inside America, and beyond, are asking.
A slew of opinion polls show a significant minority of Americans at ease with the idea of violence against the government. Even
