Pro-Trump women’s groups were the Trojan horse of the deadly Capitol riot.
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President Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, greets the crowds shortly before the armed insurrection attempt at the U.S. Capitol.
One of the scariest female characters in
English literature is Madame DeFarge, the wine shop owner whose face is the blank,
pitiless gaze of the French Revolution’s Terror in Dickens’s
A Tale of Two
Cities
. DeFarge sat beside other women, watching the
guillotine’s river of blood flow as they worked their knitting needles. In
French legend, these women are known as