Both protagonists are former presidents who so enjoyed power they refused to leave office, even when their time was up.
Looters outside a shopping center alongside a burning barricade in Durban, South Africa, July 12. LG Electronics said Tuesday its TV factory in South Africa has burned down as rioters turned violent there. KoreaTimes/AP-Yonhap
Donald Trump refused to vacate the White House after being defeated by Joe Biden in the 3 November 2020 presidential election. Even after Trump had almost conceded and flew in a helicopter for his defeat golf day, his followers were convinced that he was still the president of the US. Then followed a synchronised mobilisation of sorts to bring people from as far and Gauteng and Mpumalanga to the expensive rural homestead. Although the closure of highways showed the plan was economic sabotage, the insurrectionists did not envisage being outrun by looters.
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