Irish Examiner View: Time for America to choose democracy or rolling with the Proud Boys

Only the naive could believe that the cracks and fissures exposed in a divided society have been resolved with the election of Joe Biden as president.

Members of the Proud Boys, including organiser Joe Biggs, third from right, march across the Hawthorne Bridge in Portland, Oregon in 2019. Picture: Noah Berger

The US has been a beacon of democracy for the free world for more than 240 years, and there have been multiple occasions when we have all had cause to be grateful for that.

However, the events of last year at the Capitol shook every friend of the US — and they still reverberate.