Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is pushing back against criticism that the United States has turned into a 'banana republic' after Wednesday's riot at the Capitol. "The slander reveals a faulty understanding of banana republics and of democracy in America," Pompeo tweeted in a thread Thursday evening. "In a banana republic, mob violence determines the exercise of power.
In the United States, law enforcement officials quash mob violence so that the people’s representatives can exercise power in accordance with the rule of law and constitutional government." Former President George Bush was quick to make the criticism on Wednesday after the events. "This is how election results are disputed in a banana republic – not our democratic republic,".
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