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This is not who we are : Actually, the Capitol riot was quintessentially American
Omar Wasow, The Washington Post
Jan. 7, 2021
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After a pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol on Wednesday, commentators and elected officials - notably House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. - decried the events as un-American. In an interview with a Boston radio station on Thursday, Harvard historian Jill Lepore went so far as to say, We are off the grid of American history.
There s no disputing that the assault was remarkable. But un-American is the wrong adjective. A better way to make sense of the news of the past few days - not only the violent occupation in Washington but also the historic Senate victories by Democrats in Georgia - is as a long-run contest between two competing American traditions: one committed to preserving the status quo racial hierarchy and one fighting to advance equality.