What we all witnessed on January 6th was not so much white extremism as the natural and inevitable result of white entitlement, a group of people putting into action their belief that they’re the only ones with the right to pick this country’s leadership. These people did this because they could. Gallery: A Mob of Trump Supporters Storms Capitol The entire scene was a violation in the purest sense, and on top of all that, the lack of protective face coverings amid the pandemic betrayed both a lack of sense and shame.Ĭhasteness, Soda Pop, and Show Tunes: The Lost Story of the Young Americans and the Choircore Movement A man stood where Vice President Mike Pence typically sits in the Senate chamber, taking it upon himself to declare that Donald Trump had, indeed, won an election he lost. Washington, D.C., police found explosives near the building. A door featured the newly scrawled threat: “Murder the Media.” Others were seen with guns, and zip ties, apparently prepared to take hostages. Others took selfies and souvenir photographs, as if the mob’s intrusion were merely some Capitol tour gone awry. We saw them literally on the walls, hanging from a ledge in the Senate chambers or outside, swinging on the scaffold. Others charged at a member of law enforcement, left alone and unable to handle the mob’s surge. One man sat in Nancy Pelosi’s office, his feet contemptuously propped up on her atop the desk and a smile on his face. It’s the People’s House, but the terrorists behaved as if only they should have the keys to the Capitol.
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