For four years we have heard of the horrors—unique in American history, we’re told—of the January 6, 2021, “insurrection” and “attack on the Capitol.”
On the first anniversary, Veep Kamala Harris shuddered to recall “dates [that] echo throughout history … that occupy not only a place on our calendars, but a place in our collective memory: December 7, 1941, September 11, 2001, and January 6, 2021.”
During an address to a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden cast his troubled gaze 160 years back in history, calling J6 “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.”
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The Elephant Box 