Trump's coup is failing but American democracy is still on the critical list

The electoral college will confirm Joe Biden's victory on Monday but Donald Trump's fact-phobic hold on the Republican party holds firm

Nearly four decades after the publication of A Very British Coup, a popular novel by member of parliament Chris Mullin, America is in the throes of a very Trumpian coup - desperate, mendacious, frenzied and sometimes farcical and, most importantly, doomed to failure.