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The president, in other words, has spent his time throwing lit matches on gasoline. On Wednesday, the fire took hold.
Protesters invaded the Capitol building. Lawmakers were told to shelter in place. Gas masks were issued. One woman who was shot at the Capitol later died.
The imagery that emerged in news reports police inside the Capitol building with pistols drawn, trying to keep the mob at bay rivaled anything seen during previous American crises in its shock value.
Yet there was something grimly predictable about the events, too.
The national fabric is at least as frayed and tattered as it ever was during other times of American tumult, such as the civil rights era, the war in Vietnam or Watergate.
Reps. Schiff (D-Calif.) and Swalwell (D-Calif.) alone have conducted hundreds of interviews during the Trump era, mainly to talk about the president’s ties to Russia without evidence. AOC has released countless videos on social media during that time to her 20 million Twitter and Instagram followers. Abrams – who also took major issue with elections in Georgia while claiming her 2018 gubernatorial run was stolen from her – has yet to concede in downright Trumpian defiance but isn t accused by the press of tearing down democracy. Funny how that works.
Moderates in both parties, conversely, don t seem to get the same kind of ink and airtime. Sen. Ben Sasse