The Limit
*La versión original de este artículo fue publicada como columna de opinión en el periódico El Nuevo Siglo, el 11 de enero de 2021. Traducción: Anne Dye https://elnuevosiglo.com.co/articulos/01-11-2021-el-limite ******* As if we were all watching an action film, the year 2021 surprised us with an unusual scene, the attack on the United States Capitol. On the afternoon of January 6, a group of radical Trump followers, instigated by the president himself, stormed the headquarters of Congress. What an image! Absolutely unbelievable. Extremists violently broke in and lawmakers were forced to suspend the certification process of Joe Biden's electoral victory. These were hours of anguish. The whole world was astonished – watching live and direct – when a blow was dealt to democratic values and institutions. What a strange sense of vulnerability shared by hundreds of millions of people. Everything about this act was contradictory, resulting in the feeling of perplexity that so many